563. Dar'll Be No Distinction Dar
["Dar'll Be No Distinction Dar" or "There'll Be No Distinction There" is a spirituals about racial equality first recorded by Blind Alfred Reed with Arville Reed in New York, NY, Dec. 3, 1929. The version below from the Brown Collection was collected from Bryan Banks, a pupil of the school at Alliance, Pamlico county, 1927.
The song under the title, "There'll Be No Distinction There," was recorded by Blind Alfred Reed in 1929. The Carter Family recorded their version in 1940. Here's Blind Alfred Reed's lyrics:
THERE'LL BE NO DISTINCTION THERE (Blind Alfred Reed) (1929)
There'll be no sorrow on that heavenly shore,
There'll be no woes at the cabin door.
We'll all be wealthy and the poor will all be there,
We'll be rich and happy in that land bright and fair,
There'll be no distinction there.
There'll be no distinction there,
There'll be no distinction there,
For the Lord is just and the Lord is right,
And we'll all be white in that heavenly light,
There'll be no distinction there.]
563. Dar'll Be No Distinction Dar
A desire for the abolition of racial discrimination and climatic variability constitutes the theme of this unusual song.
"Negro fragment." From Julian P. Boyd, as collected from Bryan Banks, a pupil of the scliool at Alliance, Pamlico county, 1927.
1 Up in Heben,
So dey say,
Dar ain't no snow;
All through de winter day
De watermillions grow,
For by de laws of de just.
And de laws of de right,
We'll all be white in Heben's delight.
Chorus: Dar'll be no distinction dar,
Dar'll be no distinction
On dat beautiful shore,
Dar'll be no distinction dar.
2. For by de laws of de just,
And de laws of de right.
We'll all be white in Heben's delight,
Dar'll be no distinction dar.