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Blood Done Sign My Name
Tradtional Old-Time, Spiritual;
ARTIST: from Howard W. Odum's 1909 "Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes" (American Journal of Psychology and Education, vol. iii, p. 356).
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Bluegrass Gospel;
DATE: 1800s; 1909 Howard W. Odum, "Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes" (American Journal of Psychology and Education, vol. iii, p. 356).
RECORDING INFO: Blood Done Sign My Name
Beals' Creek Baptist Church 1960. [Version 3]
OTHER NAMES: "Blood Done Sign My Name," "De Blood Done Sign My Name," "Oh, De Blood Done Sign My Name"
SOURCES: from Journal of American folklore, Volume 27 By American Folklore Society 1914.
NOTES: "De Blood Done Sign My Name," or “Blood Done Sign My Name,” is a well known African-American spiritual. This version is from Howard W. Odum's "Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes" as it appears in the American Journal of Psychology and Education, vol. iii, p. 356.
The book, "Blood Done Sign My Name" by Timothy Tyson was published May 18, 2004.
It is an autobiographical work of history while he was a professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The book based in part on an M.A. thesis Tyson wrote in 1990 while attending Duke University, deals with the 1970 murder of Henry Marrow, a black man. Since 2004, the book has sold 140,000 copies and earned awards including the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion. UNC-CH selected the book for its 2005 summer reading program.
A movie adaptation of the book titled "Blood Done Sign My Name," by Tyson and writer Jeb Stuart, which was filmed in the cities of Shelby, Monroe and Gastonia, NC was released in the United States on February 19th, 2010.
Howard W. Odum, The Negro and His Songs. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina, 1925.
The negro singers have exhibited a characteristic specimen of their word combinations, concrete pictures, and theological principles in their song,
"De Blood Done Sign My Name"
De blood, O de blood,
O de blood done sign my name;
O Jesus said so, Jesus said so,
O de blood done sign my name.
I believe it for God he tole me,
That the blood done sign my name,
I believe it for God he tole me,
That the blood done sign my name.
Yes, the blood done sign my name.
How do you know so, God he said so
That the blood done sign my name.
Well it's written in de Kingdom,
That the blood done sign my name.
Well in de Lamb's book it is written,
That the blood done sign my name.
Well the wheels a turnin', wheels a turnin',
Blood done sign my name.
I'm boun' for glory, boun' for glory,
The blood done sign my name.
On de mountain, on de mountain,
The blood done sign my name.
In the valley, in the valley.
Blood done sign my name.
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