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Come Home
Two versions: 1) Traditional Folk Song based on "Come Home Father"
2) Traditional Spiritual
ARTIST: from John Lomax 1911
SHEET MUSIC:
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel
DATE: 1800s; 1911
RECORDING INFO: Come Home
OTHER NAMES: "Come Home Father"
RELATED TO: "Come Home I" related to "Come Home Father"
SOURCES: Folk Index; Meade
NOTES: Here are two songs that could be titled "Come Home" ["Come Home I" and "Come Home II"] collected by John Lomax in North Carolina in the early 1900s (published in 1911). The first "Come Home" is based on "Come Home Father" by Henry Clay Work. It's been collected under the title "Little Benny" and is also found in Randolph, Vol. II, #308, "Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now"; Brown, Vol. III, #24, "Father, Dear Father, Come With Me Now."
The second "Come Home" from Lomax [Come Home II] is a traditional spiritual related to the "ain't got weary yet" spirituals, one is from the Jubilee Singers.
SOME BALLADS OF NORTH CAROLINA BY PROFESSOR JOHN A. LOMAX, (SECRETARY UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EXTENSION) 1911
Still another, which was sung to my wife by a cook in Raleigh, is described by the negro woman as "awful pitiful."
COME HOME (I)- John Lomax 1911
Poor Joseph been sick pinin' for you,
Dear father, dear father, come home;
This is the message I heard him say--
Come home, the work is all done.
Refrain: Come home, come home,
Dear father, dear father, come home,
This is the message I heard him say--
Come home, the work is all done.
My mother is too,
Dear father, dear father, won't that do?
My mother is sick and wantin' you too--
Dear father, dear father, come home.
Mother said her love was true,
O father, O father, won't that do?
Mother said her love was just as true--
O father, won't that do?
LITTLE BENNY (FATHER, DEAR FATHER, COME HOME WITH ME NOW)
Sung by: Mrs. W.L. Deal Recorded in Heber Springs, AR, 7/16/53
Father, dear Father, come home with me now;
The clock in the steeple strikes one.
You said you were coming right home from the shop,
As soon as your day's work was done.
The fire is all out, the house is all dark,
And Mother's been watching since tea,
With poor little Benny so sick in her arms,
And no one to help her but me.
Chorus: Come home, come home, come home;
Please, Father, dear Father, come home.
Come Home Father (Henry Clay Work)
Father, dear father, come home with me, now!
The clock on the steeple strikes one;
You said you were coming straight home from the shop,
As soon as your day's work was done.
Our fire has gone out, our house is all dark,
And mother's been waiting since tea,
With poor brother Benny so sick in her arms,
And no one to help her but me.
Come home, come home, come home!
Please father, dear father come home.
SOME BALLADS OF NORTH CAROLINA BY PROFESSOR JOHN A. LOMAX, (SECRETARY UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EXTENSION) 1911
It is difficult to choose among the large body of religious songs known by the oldtime *African-Americans of North Carolina. Miss Dickson says, in a letter enclosing several, some of which I quote later: "The songs enclosed are those I can fully recall. They are some of those sung by the members of my father's two negro congregations in Orangeburg and Barnwell. They are so entirely different from those sung elsewhere that I can not help thinking that there was some unknown minstrel who sung and whose songs spread among them."
COME HOME II- John Lomax 1911
1. Oh, come home, come home, come home, my Fader's children;
Come home, come home, an' He ain't got weary yet.
Refrain: Oh, He call you by de lightnin',
An' He call you by de t'under,
An' He call you by de middle night cry.
Oh, come home, etc.
2. Oh, come home, come home, come home to my Fader's kingdom, etc.
3. Oh, come home, come home, come home to de cross of Jesus.
4. Oh, come home, come home, come home to de Saviour's bosom.
No. 68. I Ain't Got Weary Yet- Fisk Jubilee Singers
And I ain't got weary yet,
And I ain't got weary yet;
Been down in the valley so long,
And I ain't got weary yet.
Spiritual (untitled)
I ain’t got weary yet
I ain’t got weary yet
I been in the wilderness a mighty long time
And I ain’t got weary yet
I been walking with my Savior,
I been walking with the Lord,
I been in the wilderness a mighty long time
I ain’t got weary yet
The Jubilee Singers sang "I Ain't Got Weary Yet," Seward, Negro Spirituals, p. 68, among others. Another song, a World War I song, was written quoting (parody) the spiritual:
I Ain't Got Weary Yet (World War I) - Johnson, Howard/Wenrich, Percy
Pd - I Ain't Got Weary Yet
Peat, Frank E.; & Smith, Lee Orean (eds.) / Legion Airs. Songs of Over, Feist, Fol (1932), p 80
Scofield, Twilo (ed.) / An American Sampler, Cuthroat, Sof (1981), p172
I Ain't Got Weary Yet
Rt - Religion Is a Fortune
Pb - I Ain't Got Weary Yet (World War I)
Fisk Jubilee Singers. Marsh, J. B. T. / Story of the Jubilee Singers, Houghton Mifflin, Bk (1880), p187/# 68
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