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Antioch/Shout, Shout, We’re Gaining Ground/ Shout Old Satan's Kingdom Down
Traditional Old-Time, Bluegrass Gospel;
ARTIST: Social Harp with lyrics Samuel Medley, 1775 and melody by F. C. Wood, 1850
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel
DATE: 1846; First Recorded
RECORDING INFO:
OTHER NAMES: "I Know that My Redeemer Lives," "Shout Old Satan's Kingdom Down"
SOURCES: Folk Index; Meade
NOTES: "Antioch 277" Meter: Long Meter Half (8,8) appears in the Social Harp with lyrics Samuel Medley, 1775 and melody by F. C. Wood, 1850. The revival hymn is a rewrite of the first verse of "I Know that My Redeemer Lives" by Samuel Medley, 1738-1799:
1. I know that my Redeemer lives;
What comfort this sweet sentence gives!
He lives, He lives, who once was dead;
He lives, my ever-living Head.
The chorus comes from an old revival hymn from at least 1846:
Shout Old Satan's Kingdom Down
Shout shout we're gaining ground
O Glory hallelujah!
We'll shout old Satan's kingdom down
O Glory hallelujah!
Another version is:
Chorus: Shout, shout, we're gaining ground,
Hallelujah!
We'll shout old Satan's kingdom down,
Hallelujah!
When Christians pray, the Devil runs,
Hallelujah!
And leaves the field to Zion's sons
Hallelujah!
[Hudson, quotes from a variety of sources, including Alexander Campbell who ‘declared that the Methodist church could not live without her cries of “glory! glory! glory!” And he reported that “her periodical Amens dispossess demons, storm heaven, shut the gates of hell, and drive Satan from the camp.”’
“Shout, shout, we’re gaining ground,” they sang. “We’ll shout old Satan’s kingdom down.”
The ‘Shout Song’
Hudson’s somewhat technical attempt to describe the phenomena of worship during these highly charged meetings make for comical reading:
‘”Shouting” was praise or, as it was often called, rejoicing. Both its practice, including the clapping of hands, and its meaning was partly shaped by Old Testament texts.
‘Initially “shouting” was probably no more than [sudden utterances] of praise. But it quickly became…a type of singing, a type of song, a “shout song,” or just a “shout.”
‘If a “shout” was an [expresion] of praise and a song of rejoicing, it also became the name of a religious service, a service of praise, a praise meeting.
‘People spoke of going to “preaching,” of going to a “class meeting,” and of going to a “shout,” a praise meeting. “When we get home,” they sang, “we’ll have a shout in glory.”]
ANTIOCH 277
I know that my Redeemer lives,
Glory, hallelujah!
What comfort this sweet sentence gives,
Glory, hallelujah!
Chorus:
Shout on, pray on, we're gaining ground,
Glory hallelujah;
The dead's alive, and the lost is found,
Glory hallelujah!
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