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Christian Band, The
Folk Hymn, Gospel Song;
ARTIST: George Pullen Jackson, "White and Negro Spirituals" from Millennial Harp: By Joshua Vaughan Himes 1843
SHEET MUSIC:http://books.google.com/books?id=hOEPAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA30&dq=%22Christian+Band%22&cd=7#v=onepage&q=%22Christian%20Band%22&f=false
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CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel
DATE: 1709; First Recorded
RECORDING INFO: Christian Band
George Pullen Jackson, White and Negro Spirituals
Millennial Harp: By Joshua Vaughan Himes 1843
OTHER NAMES: "Here Is a Band Of Brethren Dear"
SOURCES: Folk Index; Millennial Harp: By Joshua Vaughan Himes 1843; George Pullen Jackson, White and Negro Spirituals;
NOTES: "Christian Band" appears in George Pullen Jackson's 1934 book "White and Negro Spirituals." This folk hymn appears to be melody for the African-American spiritual "Who'll Jine De Union" (Fenner- Hampton Institute). It was also used by the famous Hutchinson Family Singers from the mid-1800s who titled it, "We Have Come from the Mountains."
The Christian Band also appeared in the 1913 collection by the Rodeheaver Company "Songs for Men" #d26. The song is related to the "I Belong to That Band" group of songs:
I Belong to That Band- Brown Collection
The chorus is identical with two lines in a song of the same title included in L. L. McDowell. Songs of the Old Camp Ground (Ann Arhor, Mich., 1937), p. 39. The editor of this collection notes: "This song, in very different form, hoth as to words and music, is
in the revised Sacred Harp . . . published in 1911 under the title of Original Sacred Harp. It is there credited to Mr. S. M. Denson. who is still living in Alabama. My father told me positively that he heard this song...about 1845."
From a MS marked "Hodgin, Southeastern N. C."; without date.
1. I never saw the like since I heen born —
People keep coming and the train done gone.
Chorus: I belong to that band,
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah,
I belong to that hand,
Hallelujah.
2 Some come crippled and some come lame,
Some come hobbling in Jesns' name.
3 Clonds look heavy and it looks like rain,
Sun's drawing water from Emmanuel's vein.
CHRISTIAN BAND- George Pullen Jackson, "White and Negro Spirituals" from Millennial Harp: By Joshua Vaughan Himes 1843
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Here is a band of brethren dear,
I will be in this band, Hallelujah!
Their leader tells them not to fear
I will be in this band, Hallelujah!
I will be in this band, Hal-le-lu-jah!
In the second advent band, Hal-le-lu-jah!
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