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Blow Your Trumpet Gabriel
Tradtional Old-Time, Spiritual;
ARTIST: from Charles Pickard Ware, William Francis Allen, Lucy McKim Garrison "Slave Songs of the United States," 1867, no. 4, p. 3.
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Bluegrass Gospel;
DATE: 1867; Negro Spirituals by Thomas Wentworth Higginson from the Atlantic Monthly, June 1867
RECORDING INFO: Blow Your Trumpet Gabriel
Allen, William Francis, et.al (eds.) / Slave Songs of the United States, Dover, Sof (1995/1867), # 4 [1860s]
OTHER NAMES: “Blow Your Trumpet Gabriel,”
SOURCES: from 1909 Howard W. Odum, "Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes" (American Journal of Psychology and Education, vol. iii, p. 356).
NOTES: “Blow Your Trumpet Gabriel” is found in Negro Spirituals by Thomas Wentworth Higginson from the Atlantic Monthly, June 1867 and William Francis Allen, et.al (eds.) 1867 book, Slave Songs of the United States.
A version of "Blow Your Trumpet Garbiel," popular in white churches in Tennessee, was reported in the 1887 "Brooklyn Magazine" Volume 5, Issue 6 - Page 258:
" Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I cry,
Sometimes I'm almost ready to die.
Come, blow your trumpet, Gabr'el,
Jest blow your trumpet louder ;
Oh, blow your trumpet, Gab'rel,
For the new Jerusal—a—a—m !"
BLOW YOUR TRUMPET, GABRIEL- Charles Pickard Ware, William Francis Allen, Lucy McKim Garrison "Slave Songs of the United States," 1867, no. 4, p. 3.
De talles' tree in Paradise,
De Christian call de tree of life;
And I hope dat trump might blow me home
To de new Jerusalem.
Blow your trumpet, Gabriel,
Blow louder, louder;
And I hope dat trump might blow me home
To de new Jerusalem.
As sung Port Royal Islands. Variant from Virginia:
Paul and Silas, bound in jail,
Christians pray both night and day.
And I hope dat trump might blow me home
To my new Jerusalem.
So blow de trumpet, Gabriel,
Blow de trumpet louder,
And I hope dat trump might blow me home
To my new Jerusalem.
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