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I Got Shoes/All God's Chillun Got Shoes/All God's Chillun Got A Robe/All God's Chillun Got Wings/Gonna Shout All Over God's Heaven/All Over God's Heaven/ Walk Over God's Heaven/
Tradtional Old-Time Gospel and Spiritual (Bluegrass- Allison Krause/Cox Family)
ARTIST: Collected by Newman Ivy White- 1925
Sheet Music: http://books.google.com/books?id=Qf6j-a90CuwC&pg=PA71&dq=All+God's+Chillun+Got+Wings&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&cd=11
CATEGORY: Traditional Gospel;
DATE: 1800s; Printed in 1907 (Work); First Recorded in 1909 by Fisk University Jubilee Quartet
RECORDING INFO: All God's Chillen Got Shoes/Wings
Winger, Betty. Folk Songs of America. The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection...., Library of Congress AFS L68, LP (1978), trk# 15b [1931-32ca]
All God's Chillen Got Shoes/Wings
Us - All Over God's Heaven
All Over God's Heaven
Solomon, Jack & Olivia (eds.) / Sweet Bunch of Daisies, Colonial Press, Bk (1991), p160
Leisy, James / Songs for Pickin' and Singin', Gold Medal Books, sof (1962), p202 (All God's Chillen Got Shoes/Wings)
Lynn, Frank (ed.) / Songs for Swinging Housemothers, Fearon, Sof (1963/1961), p313 (All God's Chillen Got Shoes/Wings)
Best, Dick & Beth (eds.) / New Song Fest Deluxe, Hansen, Sof (1971/1948), p149 (I Got Shoes)
Sing for the Fun of It, CSS, poc (194?), p52 (I Got a Robe)
Blood, Peter; and Annie Patterson (eds.) / Rise Up Singing, Sing Out, Sof (1992/1989), p209 (I Got Shoes)
Rodeheaver, Homer (ed.) / Rodeheaver's Negro Spirituals, Rodeheaver, Fol (1923), #44 (Going/Goin' to Shout All Over God's Heaven)
Lorenz, Ellen J.(ed.) / Men's Get-Together Songs, Lorenz, Fol (1938), p 60/# 82 (Heab'n, Heab'n)
Oregon 4-H Sings, CSS OSC Extension, Sof (1946ca), p28 (I Got a Robe)
Work, John W. / American Negro Songs and Spirituals, Dover, Bk (1998/1940), P178 (Going/Goin' to Shout All Over God's Heaven)
Leisy, James F. (ed.) / Folk Song Abecedary, Bonanza, Bk (1966), p 7 (All God's Chillen Got Shoes/Wings)
Herder, Ronald (ed.) / 500 Best-Loved Song Lyrics, Dover dn500/500, Sof (1998), p 8 (All God's Chillen Got Shoes/Wings)
Georgia Sea Island Singers. Southern Journey. Vol. 13: Earliest Times, Rounder 1713, CD (1998), trk# 12 [1959/10] (Everybody Talking About Heaven)
Hayes, Roland. My Songs, Vanguard VRS- 494, LP (1956), trk# B.07 (Heaven)
Jenkins, Ella. Long Time, Folkways FC 7520, LP (1970), trk# 3 (Heaven)
Joe & Eddie. Joe & Eddie, GNP Crescendo GNP #75, LP (196?), trk# A.02 (I've Got Shoes)
Teagarden, Jack. Swing Low Sweet Spiritual, Capitol T 820, LP (195?), trk# A.03 (Gonna Shout All Over God's Heaven)
MORE RECORDINGS: Louis Armstrong, "Going to Shout All Over God's Heaven" (Decca 2085, 1938)
Big Bethel Choir #1 "Shout All Over God's Heaven" (Columbia 14157-D, 1926)
Commonwealth Quartet, "I'm Going to Shout All Over God's Heaven" (Domino 0173, 1927)
Cotton Belt Quartet, "I'm Gonna Shout All Over God's Heaven" (Vocalion 15263, 1926)
Cotton Pickers Quartet, "All God's Children Got Wings" (OKeh 8917, 1931)
Elkins Payne Jubilee Singers, "Gonna Shout All Over God's Heaven" (Paramount 12071, 1923)
Lt. Jim Europe's Singing Serenaders, "Ev'rybody Dat Talks 'Bout Heaven Ain't Goin' There" (Pathe 22105, 1919)
Fisk University Jubilee Quartet, "Shout All Over God's Heaven" (Victor 16448, 1909)
Fisk University Male Quartet, "Shout All Over God's Heaven" (Columbia A1883, 1915)
Mitchell's Christian Singers, "Gonna Shout All Over God's Heaven" (Melotone 6-04-64, 1936)
Dock Reed & Vera Hall Ward, "Everybody Talkin' About Heaven Ain't Goin' There" (on NFMAla5)
Southern Four: "Shout All Over God's Heaven" [medley w. "Standin' in the Need of Prayer"] (Edison 51364, 1924)
Edna Thomas, "I Got Shoes" (Columbia 1863-D, 1929; rec. 1928)
West Virginia Collegiate Institute Glee Club, "Shout All Over God's Heab'n" (Brunswick 3497, 1927)
OTHER NAMES: "All God's Chillen Got Shoes/Wings;" "Walk Over God's Heaven;" "Gonna Shout All Over God's Heaven"
SOURCES: Folk Index; Meade; Ballad Index
REFERENCES (3 citations):
BrownIII 550, "All God's Chillun Got Shoes" (2 texts plus 2 fragments)
Courlander-NFM, p. 67, "(Goin' to Shout All over God's Heaven)" (1 text)
Silber-FSWB, p. 359, "All God's Children Got Shoes" (1 text)
Roud #11826
NOTES: "All God's Chillun Got Robes/Wings is an African- American spiritual
and a 1923 play by Eugene O'Neill which takes its name, All God's Chillun Got Wings, from the spiritual.
The All God's Chillun Got Wings play by Eugene O'Neill was written in 1923. Paul Robeson performed in the premiere in 1924, in which he portrayed the black husband of an abusive white woman who, resenting her husband's skin colour, destroys his promising career as a lawyer. Trish Van Devere played in the 1975 Broadway revival, along with James Earl Jones, Jimmy Baio and Kathy Rich.
Recent versions include a bluesy bluegrass version "Walk Over God's Heaven" by Alison Krauss and the Cox family from the CD: I Know Who Holds Tomorrow
Listen on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD6qWTeOYlo
Sheet Music: http://books.google.com/books?id=Qf6j-a90CuwC&pg=PA71&dq=All+God's+Chillun+Got+Wings&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&cd=11
All God's Children Got Shoes begins: "I got shoes, you got shoes, All got's children got shoes; When I get to heaven, gonna put on my shoes, Gonna (shout) all over God's heaven." Similarly with robes, crowns, wings, harps, etc.
Ballad index says, "Courlander believes this song to be based on the Revelation to John. It appears to me that it is simply an exuberant expression of a poor, oppressed Christian hope in the afterlife."
There are many names and titles for this song but it's fairly similar in structure:
I Got Shoes/
All God's Chillun Got Shoes/
All God's Chilluns Got A Robe/
All God's Chilluns Got Wings/
Gonna Shout All Over God's Heaven/
All Over God's Heaven/
Walk Over God's Heaven/
Shout All Over God's Heaven/
The song appears in Work 1907, p. 60. and other early collections including Brown and also White. A version was even used in the Zigfield Follies routine in 1927. According to the authors of Spreadin’ Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930, Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake performed the spiritual as a part of their vaudeville act, and a film clip of their performance was included in a Broadway show in 1923. A jazz version was written by Walter Jermann, Gus Kahn and Bronislaw Kaperin for the 1937 Marx Brothers Film, A day At The Races titled "All God's Children Got Rhythm."
I GOT SHOES- White 1925
I’ve got shoes, you’ve got shoes
All God’s chillun got shoes,
When I git to Heb'n goin’ to put on my shoes,
Goin’ to walk all over God’s Heb'n
Heb'n, Heb'n, Goin’ to walk all over God’s Heb'n.
I’ve got a derby, you’ve got a derby
All God’s chillun got a derby,
When I git to Heb'n goin’ to put on my derby,
Goin’ to walk all over God’s Heb'n
Heb'n, Heb'n, Goin’ to walk all over God’s Heb'n.
I’ve got a crown, you’ve got a crown
All of God’s chillun got a crown
When I git to Heb'n goin’ to put on my crown,
Goin’ to walk all over God’s Heb'n,
Heb'n, Heb'n, Goin’ to walk all over God’s Heb'n.
I’ve got a robe, you’ve got a robe
All of God’s chillun got a robe,
When I git to Heb'n goin’ to put on my robe,
Goin’ to walk all over God’s Heb'n,
Heb'n, Heb'n, Goin’ to walk all over God’s Heb'n.
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