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Beautiful Home/Beautiful Home Sweet Home/Father's Got A Home/Pappa's Got A Home
Tradtional Old-Time Gospel;
ARTIST: Two versions from Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;
DATE: 1800s; Recorded as "Pappa's Got A Home" by Andrew Jenkins in 1926.
RECORDING INFO: Father's Got a Home [Me III-C 56]
Us - Father's Have a Home Sweet Home
Father's Have a Home Sweet Home [Me III-C 56]
Asbury, Samuel E.. Jackson, George P.(ed.) / Spiritual Folk Songs of Early America, Dover, Sof (1964/1937), p220/#222 [1932/09/10] (Beautiful Home Sweet Home)
Ball, E. C. and Orna. Fathers Have a Home Sweet Home, Rounder 0072, LP (1976), trk# A.08
Thede, Marion. Thede, Marion (ed.) / The Fiddle Book, Oak, Bk (1967), p107 [192?] (Father's Got a Home)
OTHER NAMES: "Father's Got A Home," "Father's Have a Home Sweet Home," "Pappa's Got A Home," "Beautiful Home Sweet Home"
SOURCES: Folk Index; Ballad Index;
NOTES: "Beautiful Home" or "Father's Got A Home" is a traditional happy camp meeting hymn that dates back to the mid-1800s. It appears in an 1887 article in The Brooklyn Magazine and two versions were collected and appear in the Max Hunter Folk Song Collection. The other versions come from the Wolf Folk Song collcetion and Thede's Fiddle book.
It was recorded as "Pappa's Got A Home" by Andrew Jenkins in 1926 and as
"Beautiful Home Sweet Home" by Homer Brierhopper in 1937.
Beautiful Home- Max Hunter Folk Song Collection Cat. #1371 (MFH #201) - As sung by Reba Dearmore, Gaithersburg, Maryland on December 31, 1971
http://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/songinformation.aspx?ID=1371
Mother's got a home, home, home
Mother's got a home, sweet home
Mother's got a home, home, home
Lord I want t' join the angels beautiful home
Same verse as above for Father, Brother, and Sister
Beautiful Home- Max Hunter Folk Song Collection Cat. #1445 (MFH #201) - As sung by Orville McInturff, Marshall, Arkansas on August 22, 1972
VERSE 1
Father had home, home, home
Father had a home, sweet home
Father had a home, sweet home
Lord, I want t' join th angels
Beautiful home
VERSE 2
Beautiful home, home, home
Beautiful home, sweet home
Beautiful home, sweet home
Lord, I want t' join th angels
Beautiful home
Same as above for Mother, Brother, Sister, etc.
BEAUTIFUL HOME (LORD, I WANT TO JOIN) John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection
Sung by: Orville McInturff; Recorded in Marshall, AR 8/6/62
Click here to listen to the original recording
http://www.lyon.edu/wolfcollection/songs/mcinturffbeautiful1270.mp3
(Mr. McInturff: "This is Orville McInturff, trying to sing some of the old songs that our fathers manufactured in these hills. They were so far away from publishing houses, and if they were close, they didn't have the money to buy the books, so they developed songs of their own. And these songs have never been published that I'm going to sing for you, if I can remember them. And the first one, I think, is one of the most beautiful.")
Father, there's a home, home, home.
Father, there's a home sweet home.
Father, there's a home sweet home;
Lord, I want to join the angels, beautiful home.
Chorus: Beautiful home, home, home.
Beautiful home sweet home.
Beautiful home sweet home,
Lord, I want to join the angels, beautiful home.
Mother, there's a home, home, home.
Mother, there's a home sweet home.
Mother, there's a home sweet home;
Lord, I want to join the angels, beautiful home.
(Chorus)
(Mr. McInturff: "Now, these songs were all extended to father, mother, sister, brother, sinner, and so forth, so that they could carry on the shouting and not be shorted or shortchanged while they were emotionally elated. So, in other words, they were somewhat on the order of round songs. Nearly all of them are based on father, mother, sister, brother and sinner and Christian and so forth and so on. And so there'd be other verses to that song, so from here on I'll just sing a verse or two, and you can tell what the others would be.
"Of course, I learned most of these songs from my mother. She could sing, really, but a lot of them I learned while I was directing the Baptist choir for 15 or 20 years here, and I would know just a snatch of the song, and I'd say, 'Uncle Poles (?), can you sing the other verse for me?' or Aunt Mary or whoever it might be, and so doing that for over the years, I developed a pretty good repertoire of these old songs. I probably won't be able to remember much of many of them this afternoon, but I do have them in my history book that I'm writing of Searcy County, and sometime maybe you'd be able to find it in a library of Searcy County.")
The Brooklyn Magazine: Volume 5, Issue 6
GOIN' TO MEETIN' IN THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAINS By William Perry Brown.
The mountaineers of East Tennessee are essentially a religious people, yet the nature and source of their devotional habits are sometimes misapprehended, and traits that are overpowering and indelible have by superficial observers been made to pass as mere minor incidents of social or individual custom.
Father's got a home—home—home,
Father's got a home—home—home,
Beautiful home—home—home,
A-n—d I want to join the angels In that home.
" Mother's got a home—home," etc.
FATHER'S GOT A HOME- Thede (The Fiddle Book), 1967; pg. 107. Old‑Time, Piece (a "happy meeting" song). USA, Oklahoma. A Major. AEac# tuning. AA.
Father's (mother's, sister's, brother's) got a home home, home,
Father's got a home sweet home;
Father's got a home home home,
Lord I want to join the angel's beautiful home.
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