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09 Oct 04 - 05:52 PM (#1293358) Subject: It must be now that the kingdom's comin' From: emjay I remember just a few words from a song my mother sang. Perhaps someone on Mudcat knows it: The white man works, ha-ha The black man rests, ho-ho It must be now that the kingdom's comin' In the year of jubilo I know she sang more of it, but that's all I can remember. |
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09 Oct 04 - 06:04 PM (#1293366) Subject: RE: It must be now that the kingdom's comin' From: Lighter "The Year of Jubilo," by Henry Clay Work (1862). They used to play the tune a lot in old Civil War movies. The original chorus runs: De Massa run, Ha ! Ha! De Darky stay Ho! Ho! It must be now de Kingdom Comin' An' de Year ob Jubilo! |
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09 Oct 04 - 06:09 PM (#1293369) Subject: RE: It must be now that the kingdom's comin' From: Peace www.geocities.com/unclesamsfarm/songs/kingdomcoming.htm Full lyrics to song are there. |
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09 Oct 04 - 06:13 PM (#1293372) Subject: RE: It must be now that the kingdom's comin' From: bubukaba There's also a MIDI of the tune on this page, under "Kingdom Coming!" http://www.pdmusic.org/work.html |
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09 Oct 04 - 06:16 PM (#1293374) Subject: RE: It must be now that the kingdom's comin' (Jubilo) From: Joe Offer ....or you could look in the, ahem, Digital Tradition... |
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09 Oct 04 - 06:18 PM (#1293376) Subject: RE: It must be now that the kingdom's comin' (Jubi From: emjay Thank you! Sometimes the few words go through my head over and over--now I can finish the song. I knew I heard the music occasionally but never the words. |
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09 Oct 04 - 06:19 PM (#1293377) Subject: RE: It must be now that the kingdom's comin' (Jubi From: emjay Actually I did try the digital tradition. None of the words I knew and entered found anything. I didn't try jubilo... |
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09 Oct 04 - 06:49 PM (#1293399) Subject: RE: It must be now that the kingdom's comin' (Jubi From: emjay I went to the websites and found words and music and some very interesting notes. Obviously what seemed a very obscure song to me is pretty well known. Recorded by many artists including Pete Seeger and according to the author of the notes, Alan Lewis, "...one of the greatest popular songs in the history of American music. Public opinion on the sloavery isssue was starting to change; and it is of much interest that this piece, written for the minstrel stage, ridiculed not the African-American slave, but rather the slaveowner and his overseer." I know my mother consciously edited out the dialect in which the song is written, but other than that it is the song I remember. |
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09 Oct 04 - 07:07 PM (#1293416) Subject: RE: It must be now that the kingdom's comin' (Jubilo) From: BanjoRay It's a popular Old Time string band tune, often played in sessions. Ray |
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23 Feb 05 - 04:41 PM (#1418857) Subject: RE: It must be now that the kingdom's comin' (Jubilo) From: GUEST,Blaze where can I get the chords to Kingdom Coming written by H.C. Works |
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23 Feb 05 - 08:44 PM (#1419104) Subject: RE: It must be now that the kingdom's comin' (Jubilo) From: Arkie J.E. Mainer did an interesting recording of this tune. The words are changed to eliminate references to slavery. |
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23 Feb 05 - 09:11 PM (#1419117) Subject: RE: It must be now that the kingdom's comin' (Jubilo) From: Bob the Postman See also the Red Clay Ramblers' version on their LP Stolen Love. Words not changed, and the whole thing sounding very much as I imagine it would have sounded in a minstrel show. The tune was used in a song with the refrain "everyone in town will be sashayin' to the Sunday Barbeque" which Tennessee Ernie Ford used to sing on his TV show. The chords can be found in a Mel Bay book Anthology Of Five String Banjo Styles by Neil Griffin. I'll post them later if necessary--no time right now. |