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Beulah Land/I've Got a Home in Beulah land/ Do Lord
Traditional Old-Time Gospel;
ARTIST: From Mississippi John Hurt 1963
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;
DATE: 1800s; Collected and published in 1922 by Perkins in Journal of American folklore, Volume 35, Page 224 "In Some Lonesome Graveyard"
RECORDING INFO: Beulah Land
Greg Brown, from Live at the Black Sheep (2003) with Pete Heitzman, Garnet Rogers, and Karen Savoca
Hurt, Mississippi John. Mississippi John Hurt Today, Vanguard VSD 79220, LP (1966), trk# 12
Hurt, Mississippi John. D.C. Blues, Vol 2. Library of Congress Rec...,, Fuel 302 061 495 2, CD (2003), trk# 1.08 [1963/07]
Welsh, Gillian/ Tribute to Mississippi John Hurt
OTHER NAMES: "I've Got a Home in Beulah Land"
RELATED TO: "Beulah Land" by Georgia Sea Island Singers
SOURCES: Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands - Page 220 Lydia Parrish, Art Rosenbaum, Olin Downes - Music - 1992 - 256 pages
NOTES: "Beulah Land" is a traditional spiritual from Mississippi John Hurt. Hurt's version is a blues version of "Do Lord, Remember Me."
The Georgia Sea Island Singers doing a related version of Beulah Land with drum, fife, banjo and delightful syncopated hand clapping, all led by John Davis with Bessie Jones as 2nd lead
BEULAH LAND
(Chorus)
Beulah land, Beulah land
I've got a home in Beulah land
(repeat)
Well, I've got a home in Beulah land
Not goin' ta stop until I reach that land
But I'm gonna meet mother in Beulah land
(chorus)
Down in Babylon, on that old field
He gonna , saw that chariot wheel
Well, not so p'ticular 'bout that chariot wheel
But I just want to know how the chariot feel
(chorus)
BEULAH LAND- Mississippi John Hurt – Key of E
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I got a mother in Beulah Land outshine the sun
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I got a mother in Beulah Land outshine the sun
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I got a mother in Beulah Land outshine the sun
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Way beyond the sky
Yes come on and go to Beulah Land outshine the sun
Come on and go to Beulah Land outshine the sun
come on and go to Beulah Land outshine the sun
Way beyond the sky
I got a father in Beulah Land outshine the sun
I got a father in Beulah Land outshine the sun
I got a father in Beulah Land outshine the sun
Way beyond the sky
Yes come on and go to Beulah Land outshine the sun
Come on and go to Beulah Land outshine the sun
come on and go to Beulah Land outshine the sun
Way beyond the sky
I got a sister in Beulah Land outshine the sun
I got a sister in Beulah Land outshine the sun
I got a sister in Beulah Land outshine the sun
Way beyond the sky
Yes come on and go to Beulah Land outshine the sun
Come on and go to Beulah Land outshine the sun
come on and go to Beulah Land outshine the sun
Way beyond the sky
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