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...Jon Michael Spencer Jules Schwerin . Got to Tell It: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel . New York : Oxford University Press , 1992 . 204 pp. Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 136 Black Sacred Music Jules Schwerin. Got to Tell It: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel...

... Gawjay, But ah can' make it up in mah min'. 1. A stranger song in two modes at once. Appendix of Negro Songs 241 Now, ah done got me a Stetson hat, Now, ah done got me a Stetson hat, Now, ah done got me a Stetson hat, Ain' gwine tell you where I got it at. Don' never fool 'round no gamblin' game, Don...

...? Ruth: Well I sang lead-I was always a lead man. Townsley was tenor, Monroe Clark was the baritone, and Cliff Antley was the bass, and Andrew Antley played the piano. Q: How did you all work out arrangements for the group? Ruth: Well we kind of got together and worked them out. And I knew a lot of songs...

... Righteous Marchin "I Know I Got Oat Good Religion," and "I'm Goin' Down to de River o' Jordan" are unmistakably looking forward to and taking note of the happier things associated with the Christian religion. Thus, they are jubilees. Again, if one takes the music of each of these songs as a test, the music...

... on the pumpkin, Brothers, when you forgot your history. Well, rap on, Brother! I got to lay it on the wood. Rap right on, Brother! Listen to me. Listen good. 'Cause you don't have to scratch An' you don't have to grin. Scratchin' without itchin' Is a vee-nial sin! Now you read in the Bible about the First...

... and Pharoah all of a sudden changed his mind and decided to come after us. He pursued us to the very edge of the Red Sea, but God told me to stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. I stretched forth my rod, God parted the sea, we walked through, Pharoah's army got drowned, and God had the last word...

..., Her sins were wicked, Jehovah got angry, Her soul went a leaping and jumping down in hell , Way back yonder in olden days John told Jezebel about her ways. Your evil deeds have ruined the land, Repent, cause the Kingdom of God is at hand. She got mad at John because he told her about the gospel, She...

... Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Music Index "A New Bell," 309-11 "A Woman Is Born for Trouble;' 140 Abyssinia, 46 "Ah Got Heb'm in Mah View," 304-5 "Ah'm a Union Man," 130 - 31 "Ah'm Gonna Mek Mah Burden Easy;' 281-82 "Ah'm Prayin' on Mah Way," 304 "All My Sins Done Taken Away...

... to his knees. The people got into it with him, answering him and shouting and clapping time. After that, when I went to church .. I watched the preachers real close. Then I'd go home and imitate them because I wanted to preach.? In due time Brown did preach, but it was not in the church. His sermonic...

... that's the only way to kind of ease my situation."6 To this effect Will Weldon sings in his "Red Hot Blues": All you got to do is just swing and sway When you're feeling low just dance these blues away. ffte Blues God Persons who protest against God because the world neglects to manifest God's work...

... perspective as the solution to the problem of black suffering. Instead, they sang, "Got the blues, and too dam' mean to cry." The blues depict the "secular" dimension of black experience. They are "worldly" songs which tell us about love and sex, and about that other "mule kickin' in my stall." They tell us...

... admits in the words of the song: Ah got scar'd At Smoky Mountain, 'Cause mah hammer Wrecked de train. The road was made for John Henry, and John Henry was made for the road. The first job he received was given to him somewhere between Macon and Savannah. The section gang was laying rails when John Henry...

... this prophetic calling. With an old Baptist whoop he crooned in his "Preaching the Blues": Oh, I got to stay on the job, I ain't got no time to lose I swear to God, I got to preach these gospel blues. Oh I'm going to preach these gospel blues and choose my seat and sit down. When the spirit comes sisters, I want...

... 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...

..., as the sun broke through the trees above him, suddenly remembering his mission. Jus' like the Mount of Transfiguration he thought. Disciples got up there and didn't wanta come down. But you can't do the Lord's work a-sitting up on the mountain. You gotta get back down in the valley. And this was to be his...

.... C.H. Mason had started his meeting, but that night the meeting had been turned into my hands and I had preached. Five people were shot-none seriously hurt. When the meeting got hot and the foe fierce I had been telegraphed for. This was just following our first holiness convention at Jackson, in 1897...

...William C. Turner, Jr. Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Keep on Pushing: n.e Impressions William C. Turner, fr. I've got to keep on pushing, I can't stop now; Move up a little higher, someway, somehow. I've got my strength and it don't make sense not to keep on pushing. Look...

... out of his difficulties, he "can't git a toe-holt!' Let us look further at another piece of text: "De cap'm got a rock quarry/ In de way back o' his head." No, the captain is not necessarily a dumb man in every case, but rather he is viewed as unable to think of a kind word or do a good deed...

... was a journey to a place where "I got shoes/ You got shoes/ All God's children got shoes." Death opens the gates where we go home to that kingdom-a home not made with human hands where the wicked cease from troubling, where the weary shall be at rest, and where every day will be like Sunday, day in and day out...

... pauper Or make you queen Troq Otopmon 259 I won't die lonely I'll have it all prearranged A grave that's deep and wide enough For me and all my mountains o' things. Young girl ain't got no chances No roots to keep her strong She's shed all pretenses That someday she'll belong Some folks call her...