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Baptist, Baptist is my Name/ Hard Trials/Gabriel's Trumpet
TRaditional Old-Time, Spiritual
ARTIST: Brown Collection
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel
DATE: 1800s;
RECORDING INFO: Baptist, Baptist is my Name
Hard Trials
Rt - Some Folks Say John Was a Baptist
Lomax, J. A. & A. Lomax / American Ballads and Folk Songs, MacMillan, Bk (1934), p600
Fisk Jubilee Singers. Marsh, J. B. T. / Story of the Jubilee Singers, Houghton Mifflin, Bk (1880), p207/# 87
OTHER NAMES: "Hard Trials," "Gabriel's Trumpet" "Methodist is My Name"
SOURCES: Folk Index; Fenner 1874; Ballad Index; Lomax
NOTES: "Baptist, Baptist is my Name" appears in Fenner's 1874 "Hard Trials" and in the ballad index as "Gabriel's Trumpet."
In the UNC-CH alma mater "Hark the Sound" April 30, 1997 -- No. 303 there's a quote:
Snider quoted the late J. Maryon Saunders, a longtime executive secretary of the UNC Alumni Association, who wrote that the spirited ending derived from an old camp meeting spiritual:
“Baptist, Baptist is my name,
And Baptist till I die
When I am dead it can be said
You've laid a Baptist by.”
From EC Perrow The Journal of American folk-lore, Volumes 25-26 By American Folklore Society in 1913:
14. METHODIST
(From Virginia; country whites; from memory; 1912)
Methodist, Methodist, while I live,
Methodist till I die;
Been baptized in the faith,
An' fed on Methodist pie.
BALLAD INDEX: Gabriel's Trumpet (Baptist Numbered in God)
DESCRIPTION: "Baptist, Baptist is my name, I hope to live and die the same, Oh Baptist numbered in God." "Gabriel's trumpet is the voice of God, to wake up the members in the old Church Yard." The singer regrets his (sister's) death and looks forward to the afterlife
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1944 (Wheeler)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
MWheeler, pp. 71-72, "Gabriel's Trumpet" (1 text, 1 tune)
BrownIII 555, "Baptist, Baptist Is My Name" (1 fragment)
Roud #11881 and 10022
Hard Trials- Fenner 1874
With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, Arranged by Thomas P. Fenner:
De fox hab hole in de groun',
An' de bird hab nest in de air,
An' ebry t'ing hab a hiding-place,
But we, poor sinner, hab none.
Now aint dat hard trials, great tribulation,
Aint dat hard trials I'm boun' to leabe dis world.
1. Baptist, Baptist is my name,
Baptist till I die,
I'll be baptize in de Baptist name,
An' I'll lib on de Baptist side.
BAPTIST IS MY NAME- Lomax from American Folk Songs 1940:
Baptist, Baptist is my name,
Baptist till I die;
I'll be baptized in de Baptist faith
And live on the Baptist side.
555 Baptist, Baptist Is My Name- Brown Collection
A variant of the first four lines is to be found in 'Hard Trials,' J. B. T. Marsh, The Story of the Jubilee Singers; zvith Their Songs (Boston, 1881), p. 207, which also has a stanza, "Oh, Methodist, Methodist is my name," etc. In 'Jesus Lock' De Lion's Jaw' in
Emily Hallowell, Calhoun Plantation Songs (Boston, 1901), p. 19, two lines resemble the first two of 'Baptist, Baptist Is My Name.'
'Roll, Jordan, Roll.' With music. From Mrs. Alice Cooke, Boone, Watauga county; undated, but about 1922, when a phonograph recording was made at Boone.
Baptist, Baptist is my name.
And Baptist till I die;
When I am dead it can he said
You've laid one Baptist by.
Come along to the meeting in here tonight.
Come along to the meeting in here tonight.
To the meeting in....................
Roll, Jordan, roll,
Roll, Jordan, roll;
I'm going to Heaven when I die.
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