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Aye Lord, Time Is Drawin' Nigh/Time is Drawing Nigh
Traditional Old-Time Gospel;
ARTIST: From Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands- Pages 185-190 Lydia Parrish, Art Rosenbaum, Olin Downes
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;
DATE: 1800s;
RECORDING INFO: Aye Lord, Time Is Drawin' Nigh
OTHER NAMES: "Time Is Drawing Nigh"
RELATED TO: "Sign Of The Judgement" by Mahalia Jackson
SOURCES: Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands - Page 185 Lydia Parrish, Art Rosenbaum, Olin Downes
http://books.google.com/books?id=awOzMKju54QC&pg=PA186&lpg=PP1&dq=slave+songs+of+the+georgia+sea+islands&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html
NOTES: "Aye Lord, Time Is Drawin' Nigh" is a spiritual from the Georgia Sea Islands from Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands - Page 185 by Lydia Parrish, Art Rosenbaum, and Olin Downes.
In Hymns from the East: Orthodox Eastern Church, John Brownlie in 1907 we have the following lyrics:
The time is drawing nigh,
Even now the day is near,
When Christ from heaven high
To Judgment shall appear;
The language evokes the hymns of Blind Willie Johnson, the Texas preacher who sang and played in blues style and tonality:
See the sign of the Judgment
Yes, yes I
See the sign of the Judgment
Oh, yes, my Lord,
Time is drawing nigh!
In "Sign Of The Judgement" by Mahalia Jackson we find:
Yes, yes, yes
It's the sign of the judgement
It's the sign of the judgement
(Yes)
It's the sign of the judgement
(Yes)
It's the sign of the judgement
(Yes, Lord)
Time is drawing nigh
AYE LORD, TIME IS DRAWIN' NIGH- Version 1 from Georgia Sea Islands
[Solo]Good-bye mother
[Response] Hmmm*
[Solo]I'm going to leave you
[Response] Hmmm
[Solo]For you can't follow
[All] Aye Lord
Time is drawin' nigh.
[Solo] In the city of Jerusalem
[Response] Hmmm
[Solo] An' Pentecost' day,
[Response] Hmmm
[Solo] When the people got the Holy Ghost,
[All] Aye Lord
Time is drawin' nigh.
[Solo] Good-bye tattlers
[Response] Hmmm
[Solo] Goin' away to leave you,
[Response] Hmmm
[Solo] You can't go with me
[All] Aye Lord
Time is drawin' nigh.
*Sung by the basers with closed lips.
AYE LORD, TIME IS DRAWIN' NIGH- Version 2 from Georgia sea Islands; McIntosh County
[Solo]Loose horse in the valley
[Response] Aye
[Solo] Who's gonna ride him,
[Response] Aye
[Solo] Nothing but the righteous
[All] Aye Lord
Time is drawin' nigh.
[Solo] Judgement is comin'
[Response] Aye
[Solo] How you know it,
[Response] Aye
[Solo]By the budding of the fig tree,
[All] Aye Lord
Time is drawin' nigh.
[Solo] Don't yo uhear God talkin'
[Response] Aye
[Solo] He's a-talkin' through the thunder,
[Response] Aye
[Solo]Then the people ona wonder,
[All] Aye Lord
Time is drawin' nigh.
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