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Blow Gable Blow/Blow Gabriel
Tradtional Old-Time, Spiritual;
ARTIST: from The Negro and His Songs: A Study of Typical Negro Songs in the South By Howard W. Odum, Guy B. Johnson 1925
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CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Bluegrass Gospel;
DATE: 1800s; 1925
RELATED TO: Blow Garbriel Blow
RECORDING INFO: Blow Gable Blow/Blow Gabriel
Georgia Sea Island Singers. Sounds of the South, Atlantic 7-82496-2, CD( (1993), trk# 3.11 [1959/07ca] Recorded in the field by Alan Lomax in the summer of 1959. Blow Gabriel - John Davis/Bessie Jones/St. Simon's Island Singers
The McIntosh County Shouters/Slave Shout Songs from the Coast of Georgia
Palmer, Nathan (Rev). Art of Field Recording, Vol. 1, Dust to Digital DTD 08, CD( (2007), trk# 2.22 [1982/01/01]
OTHER NAMES: “Blow Gabriel Blow”
SOURCES: Folk Index; Mudcat
NOTES: “Blow Gable Blow” is from The Negro and His Songs: A Study of Typical Negro Songs in the South By Howard W. Odum, Guy B. Johnson. It's a form of the "shout spiritual" that's been collected on the Georgia Sea Islands.
"Shout Because You're Free: the African-American Ring Shout Tradition" Page 112 by Art Rosenbaum:
Calm and easy / Tell everybody /
My God say / That they got to meet /
Oh blow, Gabriel / Blow that trumpet /
Louder and louder / Got to wake my people ...
An early related version titled, "Listen to the Angels Shouting," comes from the Jubliee Singers in cicra 1880:
Where do you think I found my soul/Listen to the angels shouting,
I found my soul at hell’s dark door/Listen to the angels shouting,
Before I lay in hell one day/listen to the angels shouting,
I sing and pray my soul away/Listen to the angels shouting.
Run all the way, run all the way/ run all the way my Lord,
Listen to the angels shouting
Blow, Gabriel, blow,
Blow, Gabriel, Blow,
Tell all the joyful news
Listen to the angels shouting.
"Blow Gabriel Blow," by Cole Porter is an original song loosely based on this spiritual:
Blow, Gabriel, blow,
Come on and blow, Gabriel, blow.
I've been a sinner, I've been a scamp,
But now I'm willin' to trim my lamp,
So blow, Gabriel, blow.
In 1889 Frank Horn wrote a lyrically related minstrel/spiritual version in heavy dialect:
Blow Gabr'el blow yo' trumpet, wid all yo' might,
Fo' my long white robe am ready fo' de mawnin',
But I'll put it on tonight...
BLOW GABRIEL- Rev. Gary Davis
Blow Gabriel!
Blow Gabriel!
Blow Gabriel!
Blow Gabriel!
Gonna walk and talk tell it at the judgement
Gonna walk and talk tell it at the judgement God
What you gonna do at the judgement?
What you gonna do at the judgement?
No need to run at the judgement
No need to run at the judgement God.
The sun'll start running at the judgement
The sun'll start running at the judgement
No use to run at the judgement
No use to run at the judgement
Blow Gabriel!
Blow Gabriel!
Blow Gabriel!
BLOW GABRIEL- Georgia Sea Islands from The McIntosh County Shouters
"Shout Because You're Free: the African-American Ring Shout Tradition" Page 112 by Art Rosenbaum. The back-up vocal repesonse is the same throughout: (Judgement) then (Judgement bar)
Blow Gabriel (Judgement)/ Blow That trumpet (Judgement bar)
Calm and easy (Judgement) / Tell everybody (Judgement bar)
My God say (Judgement) / That they got to meet (Judgement bar)
Oh blow, Gabriel / Blow that trumpet /
Louder and louder / Got to wake my people
Wherever they be/ On lan' or sea
Tell everybody/ my God say/
They got to be/Blow Gabriel
Oh blow your trumpet/Louder and louder
Gonna see my mother/ my father too
Blow Gabriel/ oh blow your trumpet/
Louder and louder/Tell everybody/
Blow Gabriel/Blow Gabriel
(etc)
BLOW GABLE BLOW- The Negro and His Songs: A Study of Typical Negro Songs in the South By Howard W. Odum, Guy B. Johnson 1925
Blow Gable at the judgement,
Blow Gable at the judgement bar,
For my God is talkin' at the judgement,
For my God is talkin' at the judgement bar.
Now won't you blow Gable at the judgement,
For my God is preachin' at the judgement bar.
Now won't you blow Gable at the judgement,
Well I'm goin' to meet my preachers at the judgement bar.
Additional suggested stanzas:
Now won't you blow Gable at the judgement,
Well I'm goin' to meet my mother at the judgement bar.
Blow Gable at the judgement,
Blow Gable at the judgement bar,
For my God is walkin' at the judgement,
For my God is walkin' at the judgement bar.
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