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Bathe In That Beautiful Pool/Go Wash In That Beautiful Stream/Go Wash In That Beautiful Pool
Traditional Old-Time, Spiritual. "Go Wash in that Beautiful stream" is sometimes credited to (Baltzall-Lorenz 1884) or (Baltzall-Torrey 1883)
ARTIST: Dock Walsh 1929 Victor
MP3: Listen to Dock Walsh's 1929 Recording
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel
DATE: 1800s;
RECORDING INFO: Go Wash in that Beautiful Pool [Me III-C 57]
Carolina Tar Heels. Carolina Tar Heels, Folk Legacy FSA 024, LP (1965), trk# 11 [1962/08/11]
Walsh, Dock. Mountain Sacred Songs, County 508, LP (196?), trk# A.03 [1929/09/25] (Bathe in that Beautiful Pool)
Southern Wonders Quartet. Davis 1940 (Go Wash in the Beautiful Stream)
OTHER NAMES: "Go Wash in that Beautiful Pool," "Go Wash in that Beautiful Stream"
SOURCES: Folk Index; Meade
NOTES: "Bathe In That Beautiful Pool" was recored by Dock Walsh for Victor records in 1929. The title should be "Go Wash in that Beautiful Pool." Moses Macon recorded it as "Go Wash in that Beautiful Stream" in 1928 and it was also recorded under that title by the Southern Wonders Quartet in 1939. Walsh may have changed the title to avoid copyright issues.
Moses Mason a hillbilly performer, is his 1928 recording of "Go Wash in That Beautiful Stream" played the guitar is played in the simplest manner.
Archie Green: Dock Walsh first learned this song when he was a very little boy when his father was baptized. It wa sung by the minister and congregation at the riverside during the ritual. This piece was collected twice in North Carolina from traditional singers. Arthur Hudson identifies its source as II Kings 5: Elisha curing the Syrian King of leprosy."
The song chorus was popular in a number of Gospel song collections under a variety of titles:
Gospel Bells: a choice collection of new and popular songs by John W. Bischoff, Otis F. Presbrey, Jeremiah Eames Rankin, Henry Southwick Perkins - 1883 - 154 pages "Go wash in that stream"
Songs of Victory By Charles Cullis, Willard Tract Repository as "Naaman the Leper."
The song was also in the African-American tradition and was recorded by Southern Wonders Quartet as "Go Wash in the Beautiful Stream" on the Davis label in 1940.
LISTEN to Dock Walsh: http://www.juneberry78s.com/sounds/co8773-12.mp3
Bathe In That Beautiful Pool- Dock Walsh
3/4 time
[Banjo with Slide (Intro)]
Our fathers crossed over the river,
They're now in the kingdom of God,
They're now in the kingdom where the angels all dwell
Go wash in that beautiful pool,
CHORUS: Go wash in that beautiful pool,
Go wash in that beautiful pool,
The rivers of life is flowing for all,
Go wash in that beautiful pool.
[Banjo with Slide (solo)]
Our mothers crossed over the river
They're now in the kingdom of God,
They're now in the kingdom where the angels all dwell
Go wash in that beautiful pool.
Our sisters crossed over the river
They're now in the kingdom of God,
They're now in the kingdom where the angels all dwell
Go wash in that beautiful pool.
[Banjo with Slide (solo)]
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