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Lyr Add: Lyin' in de Arms uv de Lord (Civil War?)
| Dicho (Frank Staplin) | 04 Jul 02 - 06:46 PM | |
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Subject: LYIN' IN DE ARMS UV DE LORD (Civil War?) From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Date: 04 Jul 02 - 06:46 PM Spirituals from the Civil War period that touch on the war are not common; most are of the "We Shall Be Free" group. I am making the assumption that this spiritual had its origin in that period. Lyr. Add: LYIN' IN DE ARMS UV DE LORD Come my lovin' brudder en doan git so weary Lyin' in de arms uv de Lord, Come my lovin' brudder en doan git so weary Lyin' in de arms uv de Lord. Chorus: Oh, yes, de Yankee rode er hoss in de mighty fiel' uv battle, Oh, de Yankee shot er cannon in de mighty fiel' uv battle, Lyin' in de arms uv de Lord. Come my lovin' sister en doan git so weary Lyin' in de arms uv de Lord, Come my lovin' sister en doan git so weary Lyin' in de arms uv de LOrd. Chorus Come my lovin' deacon en doan git so weary Lyin' in de arms uv de Lord, Come my lovin' deacon en doan git so weary Lyin' in de arms uv de Lord. Chorus From Olivia and Jack Solomon, 1991, Honey in the Rock, p. 80, no music. From the Tartt collection. The exhortation to hope (Don't Get Weary) appears in a number of spirituals. "The soldier of the chorus may seem unrelated to the exhortation of the stanzas, bur the Yankee is an earthly deliverer even as is God who comforts after long spiritual warfare." The Hampton Singers sang the hymn "Don't Be Weary, Traveller," (Dett, R. N., Religious Folk Songs of the Negro, p. 113, and "Don't Get Weary," p. 114. The Jubilee Singers sang "I Ain't Got Weary Yet," Seward, Negro Spirituals, p. 68, among others. "Members, Don't Git Weary" is in Johnson and Johnson, The Books of American Negro Spirituals, II, p. 155-157. @religion @spiritual @Negro |
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