...Jon Michael Spencer Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 If I Make My Bed in Hell [on Michael Spencer Whither shall I go from the spiriU or whither shall I fl_ee from thy presence~ If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. -Psalm...

...." One night, the fear tattoo got the better of him and he stole away from his marriage bed and strode down the highway. The road, in the symbolism of earlier Springsteen lyrics, is always the way to freedom. Now, when he gets there, "he didn't find nothing but the road." And in the title song...

... south! My old master dont like me. I soon beheld a hard old caseHe was a stranger too, to me; He come and stared me in the face, And says "my boy I'll set you free." That night I lay me on my bed, But there was no repose for meTen-thousand thoughts ran through my head, But all was about old Tennessee...

...John Howardton Smith Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 87 Why Should I Dread to Go I Why should I weep and dread to go To sleep among the dead When Christ my Lord has gone before. And there He made His bed. 2 So when this fleeting day is past And darkness draweth nigh When I...

...' glad ring. The anthem of nations, our world may yet sing? The mother and Babe in their manger-bed low. The love universal our world may yet know? Words: Sarah Collins Fernandis CHRISTMAS ...

..., Hallelujah, hallelujah! Doctor stand lookin' sad, Said dis de hardest case I ever had, Den you gonna need dat pure religion. Mother 'roun' my bed a-cryin', Hallelujah, hallelujah! Mother 'roun' my bed a-cryin', Hallelujah, hallelujah! Mother 'roun' my bed a-cryin', Lord have mercy, my child a-dyin', Den you...

... a little problem And misery's paying its dues, You can't get ahead laying in the bed, Get up and put on your shoes, Get up and move. Once again, the immediate focus of this ballad is the love relationship. It is the condition in which one is paralyzed over the perceived mistreatment by a lover who does...

... they need thematic material for a new work. This is a helpful practice. Very often I have had the experience (as I understand many writers and other composers have had) of getting a theme after I've gone to bed at night. At such times it is always difficult to retain it long enough to put it on paper, so I...

... for the power. Neither could those who only spoke in tongues claim membership in the communion of the cosmic choir. Glossolalic-song, then, was seemingly the highest glossal gift, for in the heavenly choir of God tongues of men and angels met. "Let them sing aloud on their beds."40 Just as speaking never...

... moment for Anderson was not simply when he saw the dehumanizing aspects of Chicago's violence, labor disputes, and strikes, but when he recalled the coal soot falling down on his apartment bed, leaving him an early-morning black face-an apt image for one who was discovering the underside of the city...

... left a note on the pillow saying he couldn't use me no more. I grabbed my pillow, turned over in my bed. I grabbed my pillow, turned over in my bed. I cried about my daddy until my cheeks turned cherry red. It's awful hard to take it, it was such a bitter pill. It's awful hard to take...

... of the twentieth century. The following song, for instance, may be referring not just figuratively to a daughter or son spiritually forsaken by worldly relatives but actually physically abandoned by abusive parents: Should father and mother forsake me below, My bed upon earth be a stone. I'll cling to my Savior...

... but dey won't dry me. Is yo' got any chaw terbaccer or dip er snuff? I uses sitch ez dat when I git ter steddyin' 'bout songs. I gen'ly lays in bed at night an' fixes up ma songs an' verse 'em out an' sing 'em de next mawnin'. What you gwine do wid dese songs? How do I know you ain't up ter some devilment...

... of his Lovesexy album he sits completely nude on a bed of white lilies with a flower stem and purple violet as a back and headrest (the purple evidently symbolic of his supposed "princely" royalty). Beside his right arm is a flower pistil that is bent and tipped like an erect phallus. Characteristically...

... pusson ter fool wid dem bones. Well, as ahm bound ter say, he got 'long all right 'til midnight. Den de mess started. He settin' on de side o' his bed takin' off his shoes when jes den a sharp piece o' wind blowed through de window an' blowed de lamp out. Man, befo' <lat room got dark good, a big black...

... recollects in her "Blue Spirit Blues": Had a dream last night that I was dead Evil spirits all around my bed. The devil came and grabbed my hand Took me way down to that red-hot land. Mean blue spirits stuck their forks in me Made me moan and groan in misery. Fairies and dragons spitting out blue flames...

... ter see; De monkey dance by side o' mah bed, Said glad dat ain't a bee. 266 Black Sacred Music Mosquito sing me las' night, De san' fly sing me too; De rat coon [raccoon] heard what dey sing, Said when yo' gwine git through? De rabbit he don' dance, De squir'l he dance fine; De 'gator he so shame...

... of wood and the openings were almost a half inch apart. The wind blew through these openings, just as if we were outdoors. It was cold even in bed! And we had to eat grits and sow belly. I'll never forget that experience. At another time, we were playing in a little town in Arkansas. It A Composer's...

... the logos evinced the primordial religious experience of a Charley Patton or a Robert Johnson absorbed in the ritual of "preaching the blues." To have cried along with Skip James in "Sick Bed Blues" would have been to encounter the blues singer's numinous fear and fascination. It was the bluesman's...

... town. I used to want to go to Norfolk because they told me that you could just be in bed at night and put your head out the window and guys would be on the corner blending, harmonizing. That's what the Norfolk Jubilee Singers told me. I believe the first record I heard was Melvin Smith, and he came out...