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Anyhow/Anyhow, My Lord
Traditional Old-Time, Gospel
ARTIST: From Mudcat Forum- Azizi/ Honey in the Rock: The Ruby Pickens Tartt Collection of Religious Folk Songs By Olivia Solomon
Golden Gate Quartet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yXoBMNZVzo
The Gates had a lot of mainstream success with their finger-clickin' jubilee records. Those usually featured Bill Johnson rapping the verses. Anyhow (recorded in 1941) is more of a straightforward spiritual, with Henry Owens on lead.
PRINTED LYRICS:http://books.google.com/books?id=FdsVXYkMTJEC&pg=PA5&dq=%22Anyhow,+My+Lord%22&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%22Anyhow%2C%20My%20Lord%22&f=false
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel
DATE: 1900s;
RECORDING INFO: Anyhow
Golden Gate Quartet 1941
Christian Light Quintet. Anyhow Melron 1964
Blair Gospel Singers. Anyhow Nashboro 1952
OTHER NAMES: "Anyhow, My Lord;" "Anyhow, Lord;" "I'm Goin Up To Heaven Anyhow," "I'm on my way to heaven anyhow,"
SOURCES: Mudcat Forum
NOTES: "Anyhow" was posted on the Mudcat disscussion Forum by Azizi:
This spiritual has a moderate tempo, and is sung in unison except for the optional response shown here in parenthesis.
I remember singing this spiritual in my Baptist church and singing it from my childhood in the 1950s Atlantic City, New Jersey and since then.
* I'm not sure whether these words are the right ones, but that's how I've been singing this spiritual for years. My take of the song is that the "He" referred to is Jesus and that because He meets the individual who is praying, that individual gets the strength to carry on inspite of people scandalizing her or his name.
ANYHOW-traditional African-American spiritual
Chorus:
Anyhow.
{anyhow}
Anyhow.
{anyhow}
Anyhow, my Lord.
Anyhow.
Anyhow.
Well, I'm goin up to heaven anyhow.
Verse 1
If my mother
talks about me.
Tryin to scandalize my name.
[I'll knell in prayer *
He'll meet me there] *
'Cause I'm goin up to heaven
anyhow.
Chorus
Other verses: "if my father" etc; if "my sister" etc; "if my neighbor" etc; if my friend" etc, "if the preacher" etc.
ANYHOW Honey in the Rock: The Ruby Pickens Tartt Collection of Religious Folk Songs ... By Olivia Solomon
VERSE: Ef yo' brother treat you wrong,
Let the Holy Ghost be yo' guide,
Fer at de cross you den bow,
En go to heaven anyhow.
CHORUS: Anyhow, anyhow, anyhow
My Lord at de cross you can bow,
En go to heaven anyhow.
VERSE: Ef yo' pastor treat you wrong,
Let the Holy Ghost be yo' guide,
Fer at de cross you den bow,
En go to heaven anyhow.
CHORUS: Anyhow, anyhow, anyhow
My Lord at de cross you can bow,
En go to heaven anyhow.
Folk-Tales from Guilford Co., NC 1917 JOAFL Parsons
62. ANYHOW.
Once dere was three little children. Their mother had died. An' de people around had told de moder before she died dey'd treat her children kind. An' said, one day after de moder was buried, de children would go to some of de people round's house, an' said 'last de people drove 'em from de do' an' said de little children made a song: -
Moderato.
1. Anyhow, anyhow,
I'm on my way to heav-en, any - how.
At the Cross I'll die. .
On . . my way to heav-en, an-y -how.
2. Tell moth-er .. that she must die,
That you treat us children kind, you know,
Since moth-er... she was dead-ee,
An' she was bu - ried . . too.
3. Moth-er's gone, fa-ther's gone,
An' broth - er's gone . . too.
At the Cross I'll die ...
On my way to heav-en, an - y - how.
4. You can 'buse, you can 'buse me,
You can scan-d'ize.. my name from do' to do',
But at the Cross I'll die. ..
I'm on my way to heav-en an - y - how.
Thank God! an 1y - how.
NEw YORK.
1 Informant 7. The framing of this "spiritual" with narrative has a comparative
interest for the student of the cante-fable in the Bahamas
Anyhow- Christian Light Quintet; Melron; 1964
Chorus: Anyhow Lord, (Oh, oh)
Anyhow Lord (Oh, oh)
Anyhow, (Anyhow) Lord (Lord)
My my Lord
Now that You're gone, help me Jesus
And we, surely got to die
That's why I'm on my way to heaven anyhow.
ANYHOW, MY LORD- Best-loved Negro spirituals: By Nicole Beaulieu Herder, Ronald Herder
Anyhow, anyhow, my Lord, anyhow
CHORUS: At the cross you must bow,
I'm goin' up to heaven anyhow.
If your father talk about you,
And scandalize your name
CHORUS: At the cross you must bow,
I'm goin' up to heaven anyhow
If your mother talk about you,
And scandalize your name
If your bother talk about you,
And scandalize your name
If your siser talk about you,
And scandalize your name
CHORUS: At the cross you must bow,
I'm goin' up to heaven anyhow
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