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Beulah Land/I've Got a Home in Beulah land
Traditional Old-Time Gospel;
ARTIST: From John Davis with Bessie Jones and Georgia Sea Island Singers "Beulah Land" (Prestige International 25001, 1959).
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
Georgia Sea Island Group. Georgia Sea Island Songs, New World NW 278, LP (1977), trk# A.08 [1961ca]
Georgia Sea Island Group. Southern Journey. Vol. 1: Voices from the American South, Rounder 1701, CD (1997), trk# 23 [1960/04/28]
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]
Kelly Brothers Oh Beulah Land Nashboro 1959
OTHER NAMES: "I've Got a Home in Beulah Land"
RELATED TO: "Beulah Land" by Mississippi John Hurt. Hurt's version is a blues version of "Do Lord, Remember Me."
SOURCES: Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands - Page 220 Lydia Parrish, Art Rosenbaum, Olin Downes - Music - 1992 - 256 pages
NOTES: "Beulah Land" Georgia Sea Island Singers doing a version of Beulah Land with drum, fife, banjo and delightful syncopated hand clapping, all led by John Davis with Bessie Jones as 2nd lead. A different but related version title "Oh Beulah Land" was recorded by the Kelly Brothers on the Nashboro label in 1959.
BEULAH LAND- Georgia Sea Island Singers
CHORUS: Beulah land, Beulah land
I've got a home in Beulah land
Beulah land, Beulah land
I've got a home in Beulah land
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 saw that chariot wheel
Well, not so p'ticular 'bout that chariot wheel
But I just want to know how the chariot feel
(chorus)
Way down yonder on Jordon shore
Angels say that time will be no mo'
Well, some come crppled, some come lame
All come hoppin' in my Jesus' name
(chorus)
Way down yonder in Jordon's shore
When we meet we'll part no more
Not so p'ticular 'bout part no more
Gonna meet my mother in Beulah land
(chorus)
Well, Jordon's river it's chilly & col'
It chills your body, but not your soul
Well, I'm not so p'ticular 'bout the body and the soul
I'm gonna meet my mother in Beulah land
(chorus)
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)
Well, I've got a home in Beulah land
Not goin' ta stop until I shake her hand
Well, I'm not so p'ticular jus' 'bout shakin' her hand
Lord, gonna meet my mother in Beulah land
(chorus)
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