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Help: Old Blues lyrics question
| GUEST | 06 Apr 02 - 05:43 PM | |
| Rolfyboy6 | 07 Apr 02 - 04:31 PM | |
| masato sakurai | 07 Apr 02 - 08:35 PM | |
| Jim Dixon | 08 Nov 07 - 10:38 PM | |
| Sorcha | 08 Nov 07 - 10:53 PM | |
| GUEST,Scott | 10 May 12 - 11:54 AM | |
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Subject: Old Blues song lyrics question From: GUEST Date: 06 Apr 02 - 05:43 PM Hi! I was wondering if anyone knows what blues song these lyrics are from:
Neither in the heat of the day But come in the sweet cool of the evening and wash my sins away |
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Subject: RE: Help: Old Blues lyrics question From: Rolfyboy6 Date: 07 Apr 02 - 04:31 PM I don't recognize this at all. Further, it is written in 'literary' English (not common in the blues) and the meter/rhyme sceme isn't one that is usual in the blues. And it's a quatrain. Before 1947 it is unlikely that this would have been part of the blues as it arose out of the south. Possible exceptions would be in gospel (notice the sin washing), or in pop parts of big band swing (then popular). |
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Subject: RE: Help: Old Blues lyrics question From: masato sakurai Date: 07 Apr 02 - 08:35 PM This song (not a blues song) is quoted in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952, chapter 18):
"Don't come early in the morning
(From: HERE)
Also in UNCLES JOSH'S PUNKIN CENTRE STORIES by CAL STEWART (1903):
Samantha Hoskins concluded she would have to sing her favorite hymn; it went something like this:
"Oh you need not cum in the mornin',
Chorus-- Standin' on the walls of Zion,
"Standin' on the Walls of Zion" is in Carl Sandburg's The American Songbag (1927, p. 484, with music; Sandburg says this is from "white man's spiritual"):
Then it's a hooraw, and a hooraw, ~Masato |
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Subject: RE: Help: Old Blues lyrics question From: Jim Dixon Date: 08 Nov 07 - 10:38 PM The song is also quoted in Langston Hughes' "Master of Miracles: A Gospel Song-Play Based on the Bible and the Negro Spirituals," 1962. The relevant quote is on page 408 of "The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 6: Gospel plays, operas, and later dramatic works," University of Missouri Press, 2004. Hughes puts these lines in all caps. I'm guessing that's to indicate that these lines are sung, not spoken, but I have put them in lower case to make them easier to read: WOMAN: Eve, where is Adam? DEACON: Eve, where is Adam? ELDER: Adam's in the garden picking up leaves. WOMEN: Adam's in the garden picking up leaves. ELDER: He didn't come soon in the morning, Neither in the heat of the day. He's come in the cool of the evening To wash my sins away. SINGERS: Eve, where is Adam? Eve, where is Adam? Adam's in the garden picking up leaves… |
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Subject: RE: Help: Old Blues lyrics question From: Sorcha Date: 08 Nov 07 - 10:53 PM Sounds more like gospel than real blues to me. The original quote uses (pardon me here) White language, the rest more like Black (African American, whatever) gospel. |
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Subject: RE: Help: Old Blues lyrics question From: GUEST,Scott Date: 10 May 12 - 11:54 AM Not positive about the origins, but I've been looking for this as well. There's a fantastic rendition of this on Dizzy Diamonds/The Best Of The Verve Years (Disc 2). Name of the song is "Where's Adam?". If you google "adam in the garden pinning leaves" you will find lots of references, but I believe they all list the song as author unknown, and that it's a "traditional" gospel song. The most thorough description that I have been able to find is here: http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/adam-in-the-garden-pinning-leaves.aspx Which includes the following: NOTES: "Adam in the Garden Pinning Leaves" is a traditional gospel song collected in 1934. The mention of Adam making clothing of fig leaves occurs in the Bible in Gen. 3:7; God comes after Adam in 3:8-9. The siege of Jericho is described in Joshua 6, with a foreshadowing in Joshua 2. Again, I came to this through Dizzy Gillespie, and unless you just hate jazz, you should really check out his rendition. Fantastic. |
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