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A Few More Beatings Of The Wind and Rain
Traditional Old-Time, Gospel;
ARTIST: Charity Bower collected by Lydia Maria Child "An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans called Africans." New York, J. S. Taylor, 1836.
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Bluegrass Gospel;
DATE: 1832;
RECORDING INFO: A Few More Beatings Of The Wind and The Rain
Child, Lydia Maria, "An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans called Africans." New York, J. S. Taylor, 1836.
OTHER NAMES: "A Few More Beatings" "De Winter'll Soon Be Over"
SOURCES: Mudcat; Lydia Maria Child "An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans called Africans." New York, J. S. Taylor, 1836
NOTES: "A Few More Beatings Of The Wind and Rain" is perhaps the oldest spiritual that talks of freedom, by a former slave who was alive at the time of the Nat Turner insurrection. The song was collected by Lydia M. Child and published in 1836.
Child wrote of the singer, Charity Bower: "With a very arch expression, she looked up as she concluded and said, "They wouldn't let us sing that. They thought we was going to RISE, because we sung better days are coming."
The song is related to "De Winter'll Soon Be Over" found in "Slave Songs" and a different melody with similar lyrics in Fenner, "Cabin and Plantation Songs," and in Dett, "Religious Folk Songs of the Negro."
A FEW MORE BEATINGS OF THE WIND AND RAIN- Charity Bower 1832
A few more beatings of the wind and rain,
Ere the winter will be over-
Glory, Hallelujah!
Some friends has gone before me,
I must try to go and meet them-
Glory, Hallelujah!
A few more risings and settings of the sun,
Ere the winter will be over-
Glory, Hallelujah!
There's a better day a coming-
There's a better day a coming-
Oh, Glory, Hallelujah!
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