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Bible's Right, The/Bible Is Right, The
Tradtional Old-Time, Gospel;
ARTIST: Sister O.M. Terrell's in 1953
Sister O.M. Terrell's Swing Low Chariot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFNG2UphvxI
Temple of Deliverance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QHaEeYs2SM
Brother Gary Byrant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vbeAhHnaUw&feature=related
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Bluegrass Gospel;
DATE: 1900s; Recorded by Sister Ola Mae Terrell (1953)
RECORDING INFO: Bible’s Right
Sister O.M. Terrell's one session for Columbia, Nashville in 1953
Rev H B Crum and the Golden Keys. "The Bible's Right" Regent 1961
Brother Will Hairston. The Bible is Right JVB 1957
OTHER NAMES: “The Bible’s Right,” “The Bible Is Right,” “I Know The Bible Is Right,”
SOURCES: Songsters and saints: vocal traditions on race records, Volume 2 By Paul Oliver
NOTES: “The Bible’s Right,” is a bluesy spiritual by Sister Ola Mae Terrell (1953)
"It's just her and her guitar, some unknown backup, and a whole lot of faith in the Lord and the Bible. Most of her songs are played the same; rough strumming a direct plodding bass line and occasional guitar shouts."
In Brother Will Hairston's version titled "The Bible Is Right" done in 1957, the chorus is the same but the verses are different:
CHORUS: Because the bible is right, somebody wrong
Because the bible is right, somebody wrong,
Because the bible is right, somebody wrong,
Lord somebody wrong
Somebody wrong
Here are the popular lyrics to this song played in both white and black churches:
I Know The Bible Is Right- Performed by- G.E. Patterson
CHORUS: I know the bible is right (choir) Somebody's wrong
I know the bible is right (choir) Somebody's wrong
I know the bible is right (choir) Somebody's wrong
I know the bible is right (choir) Somebody's wrong
(Verse) I told you once - I told you twice
You cant make it to Heaven with a sweetheart and a wife (chorus)
(Verse) I told you time, and time again,
You can't make it to Heaven while you're sipping Gin (chorus)
(Verse) Read the Bible through, and through,
It keeps on telling you, you've got work to do (chorus)
From Sister Ola Mae Terrell's liner notes of "The Gospel Tradition: The Roots and The Branches, Volume 1" (which has the "Birds" track):
Sister O.M. Terrell's one session for Columbia, in Nashville in 1953, resulted in six tracks. An itinerant black evangelist singer with holiness roots, Sister Terrell came to the attention of Columbia through the efforts of Robert T. Christie and Lauren Moore, managers at radio station WPAL in Charleston, South Carolina. Terrell had come to the station, and for a period was doing a regular live radio show on Sundays at the station.
The latest Blues & Rhythm #141 (August 1999) has an article on Sister O. M. Terrell.
She was born Ola Mae Long, in Atlanta, GA., on August 18/1911, and is in a nursing home. You can write her at Starcrest Facilities, 1420 Milstead Road, Conyers, GA. 30012.
The Bible's Right- Sister O.M. Terrell
You know the bible right, somebody wrong
The bible right, somebody wrong,
The bible right, somebody wrong, god knows, you're wrong
I know the bible right
Somebody wrong
The bible right
The bible right, well well well, you're wrong
Tell you once, tell you twice
Can't get to heaven with another man's wife
The bible right,
The bible right
Oh yes
The bible right
Somebody wrong,
Wait let me tell you can't do
Can't tell lies and go there too
I know the bible right
Somebody wrong the bible right
Somebody wrong the bible right
Somebody wrong, great god! somebody wrong.
You snuff dippers,
Tobacco chewers
When you get to heaven,
You won't have no where to spit
I know the bible right
I know the bible right
Ooh - bible right, somebody wrong
I mean, you are wrong
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