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A Great Campmeetin'/Great Camp Meeting/There's a Great Camp Meeting
SEE: A Great Campmeetin'
Tradtional Old-Time, Gospel;
ARTIST: Old Plantation Hymns: By William Eleazar Barton; 1899
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Traditional spiritual from Afro-american Folk Songs: A Study in Racial and National Music By Henry Edward Krehbiel
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CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;
DATE: 1800; 1880 Hampton Students
RECORDING INFO: A Great Campmeetin'/There's a Great Camp Meeting
Benziger, Barbara; & Eleanor Dickinson (eds.) / That Old-Time Religion, Harper & Row, Sof (1975), p 96 (Camp Meeting)
Fisk Jubilee Singers
Work, John W. / American Negro Songs and Spirituals, Dover, Bk (1998/1940), p143
Barnes, Doc (Brady) and Lucy. Rosenbaum, Art (ed.) / Folk Visions & Voices. Traditional Music & So...., Univ. of Georgia, Bk (1983), p 44 [1978/07] (Walk Together, Little C
Hampton Students. Marsh, J. B. T. / Story of the Jubilee Singers, Houghton Mifflin, Bk (1880), p246/#114 (Great Camp Meeting in the Promised Land)
Belleville A Cappella Choir. Southern Journey. Vol. 11: Honor the Lamb, Rounder 1711, CD (1998), trk# 8a [1960/04/28]
OTHER NAMES: "There's a Great Camp Meeting " "Great Camp Meeting" "Great Camp Meeting in the Wilderness"
SOURCES: Fenner 1874; Folk Index
NOTES: "Big CAmp Meeting' from Old Plantation Hymns: By William Eleazar Barton; 1899 is also known as "A Great Campmeetin' " or "There's a Great Camp Meeting " is from the Hampton collection and appears in Afro-American Folk Songs: A Study in Racial and National Music By Henry Edward Krehbiel. Below that is the song in Fenner 1874 which has five verses.
A GREAT CAMPMEETIN'- Hampton Collection
[Solo] Oh walk togedder children [All] Don't you get a-weary
[Solo] Walk togedder children [All] Don't you get a-weary
[Solo] Oh walk togedder children [All] Don't you get a-weary
[All] Dere's a great camp meetin' in de promised land. (REPEAT)
CHORUS:
[Solo] Gonna mourn and nebber tire [All] mourn and nebber tire
[All] Mourn and nebber tire
[All] Dere's a great camp meetin' in de promised land.
A Great Camp-Meetin' in de Promised Land- Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, Arranged by Thomas P. Fenner
"This hymn was made by a company of Slaves, who were not allowed to sing or pray anywhere the old master could hear them; and when he died their old mistress looked on them with pity, and granted them the privilege of singing and praying in the cabins at night. Then they sang this hymn, and shouted for joy, and gave God the honor and praise." J. B. TOWE.
1. [Solo]Oh walk togedder, childron, [All] Dont yer get weary,
Walk togedder, childron, [All] Dont yer get weary,
Walk togedder, childron, [All] Dont yer get weary,
[All] Dere's a great camp meetin' in de promised land.
[Solo]Oh talk togedder, childron, [All] Dont yer get weary,
Talk togedder, childron, [All] Dont yer get weary,
Talk togedder, childron, [All] Dont yer get weary,
[All] Dere's a great camp meetin' in de promised land.
[Solo]Oh sing togedder, childron, [All] Dont yer get weary,
Sing togedder, childron, [All] Dont yer get weary,
Sing togedder, childron, [All] Dont yer get weary,
[All] Dere's a great camp meetin' in de promised land.
CHORUS:
[Solo] Gonna mourn and nebber tire [All] mourn and nebber tire
[All] Mourn and nebber tire
[All] Dere's a great camp meetin' in de promised land.
2. Oh get you ready, childron, Dont you get weary,
Get you ready, childron, Dont you, &c.(bis.)
Dere's a great camp-meetin' in de Promised Land.
For Jesus is a comin', Dont you get, &c.,
Jesus is a comin', Dont you get, &c., (bis.)
Dere's a great camp-meetin' in de Promised Land.
Gwine to hab a happy meetin', Dont you get weary,
Hab a happy meetin', Dont you get, &c. (bis.)
Dere's a great camp-meetin' in de Promised Land.
CHORUS:
[Solo] Gonna mourn and nebber tire [All] mourn and nebber tire
[All] Mourn and nebber tire
[All] Dere's a great camp meetin' in de promised land.
3. Gwine to hab it in hebben, Dont you, &c.
Gwine to hab it in hebben, Dont, &c. (bis.)
Dere's a great camp-meetin' in de, &c.,
Gwine to shout in hebben, Dont you get weary,
Shout in hebben, Dont you get, &c., (bis.)
Dere's a great camp-meetin' in de, &c.,
Oh will you go wid me, Dont you get, &c.,
Will you go wid me, Dont you get, &c., (bis.)
Dere's a great camp-meetin' in de, &c.,
CHO.--Gwine to shout an' nebber tire,
Shout an' nebber tire, (bis.)
Dere's a great camp-meetin' in de Promised Land,
4. Dere's a better day comin', Dont you get weary,
Better day a comin', Dont you get, &c., (bis.)
Dere's a great camp-meetin' in de Promised Land.
Oh slap your hands childron, Dont, &c.
Slap your hands children, Dont, &c., (bis.)
Dere's a great camp-meetin' in de Promised Land.
Oh pat your foot childron, Dont you get weary,
Pat your foot childron, Dont, &c., (bis.)
Dere's a great camp-meetin' in de Promised Land.
CHO.--Gwine to live wid God forever,
Live wid God forever, (bis.)
Dere's a great camp-meetin' in de Promised Land.
5. Oh, feel de Spirit a movin', Dont you, &c.
Feel de Spirit a movin', Dont, &c., (bis.)
Dere's a great camp-meetin' in de, &c.
Oh now I'm gettin' happy, Dont you get weary,
Now I'm gettin' happy, Dont, &c., (bis.)
Dere's a great camp-meetin' in de, &c.
I feel so happy, Dont you get weary,
Feel so happy, Dont you get weary, (bis.)
Dere's a great camp-meetin' in de, &c.
CHO.--Oh, fly an' nebber tire,
Fly an' nebber tire, (bis.)
Dere's a great camp-meetin' in de Promised Land.
BIG CAMP MEETING- Old Plantation Hymns: By William Eleazar Barton; 1899
The negro pronunciation of "This Union" was said to be turned to good account by certain merchants living in the border states during the war, among whom a popular placard bore a picture of a contraband throwing up his hatand shouting,"Dis Union Forever!"- The words w^re so spaced as to leave the phrase beautifully ambiguous, and it was explained as "This Union forever," or "Disunion forever," according to the exigencies of the occasion.
Another version, with a different tune, is found in a grouping of the "Union band" with that theme of perpetual interest and ecstatic contemplation, the big camp meeting in the promised land. There are many songs that dwell on the last of these, and some that combine the two.
CHORUS: Oh, dis Union
Oh, dis Union band
Oh, dis Union
Big camp meetin' in de promised land
You can hinder me here,
But you can't do it there,
For He sits in de Heavens
And he answers prayer.
Big camp meetin' in de promised land
CHORUS:
I hain't had time,
For to stop and talk.
de road is rough,
And it's hard to walk.
Big camp meetin' in de promised land
CHORUS:
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