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At The Table/Come Over Here/Come over Here Where the Table is Spread/
Traditional Spiritual
ARTIST: from Richard Smallwood
SHEET MUSIC:
YOUTUBE: At The Table http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNZK8vC8KQY
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel
DATE: 1900s; Spiritual Singers for Christ on Lance- 1951
RECORDING INFO: Come Over Here
Heavenly Lights Come Over Here Regent 1960
Smallwood, Richard (two versions)
Fairfield Four Come Over Here Dot 1953
Zion Travelers Come Over Here Score 1953
Mello-aires of Rochester, NY. Gotham c.1952 Come Over Here
Spiritual Singers for Christ. Lance- 1951
OTHER NAMES: "Feast of the Lord," "At The Table" "Come Over Here Where the Table is Spread"
RELATED TO:
SOURCES: Youtube; WFMU http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/9425
NOTES: "At The Table" or "Come Over Here" a spiritual by Richard Smallwood that is of unknown origin and is known by a variety of names including "Come Over Here Where the Table is Spread" and "Feast of the Lord." Richard Smallwood arranged a version titled "Come Over Here Where the Table Is Spread," for the 1985 musical about Mahalia Jackson. Smallwood titled his new version, "At The Table."A variety of versions can be heard on Youtube and on WFMU. I consider it to be a modern spiritual circa 1940 evolving out of the "come over here" choral response.
The Spiritual Singers for Christ is one of the early recorded versions. "Come Over Here, the Table Is Spread" was collected by Smithsonian Folkways from The Starlight Gospel Singers of Perry Co., Alabama in 1954. Here's one of the early versions:
Come Over Here- Spiritual Singers for Christ- 1951 http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/9425 Each verse is repeated but the chords and melody change the second time.
Come over here (come over here)
Where I am (Where I am)
And the feast of the Lord,
Is going on.
Come over here (come over here)
Where I am (Where I am)
And the feast of the Lord,
Is going on.
Feast over here (Feast over here)
Where I am (Where I am)
And the feast of the Lord,
Is going on.
Feast over here (Feast over here)
Where I am (Where I am)
And the feast of the Lord,
Is going on.
Joy over here (joy over here)
Where I am (Where I am)
Where the feast of the Lord,
Is going on
Joy over here (joy over here)
Where I am (Where I am)
Where the feast of the Lord,
Is going on
Shoutin' over here (shoutin' over here)
Where I am (where I am)
Where the feast of the Lord,
Is going on
Shoutin' over here (shoutin' over here)
Where I am (where I am)
Where the feast of the Lord,
Is going on
Freedom over here (freedom over here)
Where I am (Where I am)
Where the feast of the Lord,
Is going on
Freedom over here (freedom over here)
Where I am (Where I am)
Where the feast of the Lord,
Is going on
Come over here (come over here)
Where I am (Where I am)
And the feast of the Lord,
Is going on.
Come over here (come over here)
Where I am (Where I am)
And the feast of the Lord,
Is going on.
Joy over here (joy over here)
Where I am (Where I am)
Where the feast of the Lord,
Is going on
Joy over here (joy over here)
Where I am (Where I am)
Where the feast of the Lord,
Is going on
At The Table- Arranged by Richard Smallwood
Come on in where the table is spread
And the feast of the Lord is going on. (repeat 3x)
Joy is where the table is spread
And the feast of the Lord is going on. (repeat)
Peace is where the table is spread
And the feast of the Lord is going on. (repeat)
(Seeking healing for your body)
It's over here
(Seeking healing for your soul)
Over here
(Seeking your soul's salvation)
It's over here
(If you want the Lord to make you whole)
Over here
Love is where the table is spread
And the feast of the Lord is going on. (repeat)
(If you need more strength and more power)
It's over here
(relief from your budens and pain)
Over here
(Seeking for joy in your sorrow)
It's over here
(feast and you will never be the same)
Over here
Vamp: It's here right now,
What you need is waiting at the table
It's here right now,
What you need
At the table, at the table
At the table, at the table
It's here
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