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Blessed Hope
Old-Time Gospel; By Rev. W. E. Bailey 1909
ARTIST: By J Rev. W. E. Bailey. (Sung by Rev. J. T. Johnson) Howard W. Odum, "Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern. Negroes " (American Journal of Psychology and Education, vol. iii, pp. 307, 364) 1909.
Clark and Hudson- 1891:
Wesley and Hudson version from 1894: http://books.google.com/books?id=kGyRyD5h07oC&pg=PA83&dq=%22Blessed+Be+The+Name%22+hudson&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&cd=3
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;
DATE: 1800s; 1909 Odum; 1914 Journal of American Folk-Lore
RECORDING INFO: Blessed Be The Name
Blessed Be the Name [of the Lord]
Hurt, Mississippi John. Avalon Blues: The Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings, Columbia Legacy CK 64986, CD (1996), trk# 10 [1928/12/28]
Hurt, Mississippi John. D.C. Blues, Vol 2. Library of Congress Rec...,, Fuel 302 061 495 2, CD (2003), trk# 1.13 [1963/07]
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SOURCES: Howard W. Odum, "Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern. Negroes " (American Journal of Psychology and Education, vol. iii, pp. 307, 364) 1909.
NOTES: "Blessed Hoope" is an African-American hymn by Rev. W. E. Bailey published in 1909. From "Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes" (American Journal of Psychology and Education, vol. iii, pp. 307, 364):
BLESSED HOPE- Odum 1909 "Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern
Negroes" (American Journal of Psychology and Education, vol. iii, pp. 307, 364)
They show well the circumstances which they represent. The effort is often made by members of the younger generation of negroes to substitute the new songs, together with the standard hymns for the old spirituals. They represent a step forward ; young educated negroes do not like to be heard singing the simple spirituals. They claim that they are songs of the past, and, as such only, are they beautiful. The following song, given in the exact form in which it was distributed, will serve to illustrate.
BLESSED HOPE- By J Rev. W. E. Bailey (Sung by Rev. J. T. Johnson)
Blessed hope that in Jesus is given,
All our sorrow to cheer and sustain,
That soon in the mansions of heaven
We shall meet with our loved ones again.
Blessed hope, blessed hope,
We shall meet toith our loved ones again,
Blessed hope, blessed hope,
We shall meet with our loved ones again.
Blessed hope in the word God has spoken,
All our peace by that word we obtain,
And as sure as God's word was never broken,
We shall meet with our loved ones again.
Blessed hope how it shines in our sorrows,
Like the star over Bethlehem's plain,
We will see our Lord ere the morrow,
We shall meet with our loved ones again.
Blessed hope the bright star of the morning,
That shall herald his coming to reign,
He will come and reward all the faithful,
We shall meet with our loved ones again.
Such a song is neither sung to an old melody nor a new tune; it is not a spiritual; it is scarcely native nor yet borrowed. It represents the general result that comes from a free intermingling of all. To such a song there may be any number of tunes; likewise there are a great many such songs introduced and may be sung alike to simple tunes. A tune is as easily selected and rendered as are the words: words are as easily improvised, or written with some care, as the melodies are natural. But they appeal less strongly to the negroes as a rule for the simple reason that "they don't put a feelin" in you like the old songs. "
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