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Angels Done Bowed Down/The Angels Done Bowed Down
Old-Time, Gospel
ARTIST: John Work 1940
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CATEGORY: Traditional Bluegrass Gospel;
DATE: 1900s; 1940 Work
RECORDING INFO: Angels Done Bowed Down
Powell, Zenobia "O de Angels Done Bowed Down," for mezzo-soprano and piano (1973)
Work, John Wesley American Negro Songs: 230 Folk Songs and Spirituals, Religious and Secular 1940.
OTHER NAMES: "O de Angels Done Bowed Down,"
SOURCES: Folk Index;
NOTES: "Angels Done Bowed Down" comes from American Negro Songs: 230 Folk Songs and Spirituals, Religious and Secular By John Wesley Work 1940.
Another version "O de Angels Done Bowed Down," for mezzo-soprano and piano (1973) by Zenobia Powell. There is a version by Powell in 1969, with the following inscription: "As sung by my grandfather, Charlie Thompson."
Angels Done Bowed Down- John Work 1940
The Angels done bowed down,
The Angels done bowed down,
The Angels done bowed down,
The Angels done bowed down.
When Jesus was hangin upon the cross,
The angels kept quiet till God went off,
The angels hung their harps on the willow trees,
To give satisfaction till God was pleased.
His souls went up on a pillar of cloud,
God He moved and the Heaven's did bow,
Jehovah's sword was at His side,
On the empty air He did ride.
Go down angels to the flood,
Blow out the sun, turn the moon to blood!
Come back angels bolt the door,
Because the time that's going to be no more.
The Angels done bowed down,
The Angels done bowed down.
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