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Come On Let's Go To Burying/New Buryin' Ground
Traditional Spiritual
ARTIST: Negro Religious Field Recordings Vol. 2 (c.1924-1941) Document Records from Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas.
CATEGORY: Traditional and Shape-Note Gospel;
DATE: probably 1800s; 1924-1941
RECORDING INFO: Come On Let's Go To Burying
Negro Religious Field Recordings Vol. 2 (c.1924-1941) Document Records
OTHER NAMES: "New Buryin' Ground."
RELATED TO: "New Buryin' Ground"
SOURCES: Mudcat; Negro Religious Field Recordings Vol. 2 (c.1924-1941) Document Records
NOTES: "Come On Let's Go To Burying" is a traditional spiritual transcribed from Negro Religious Field Recordings Vol. 2 (c.1924-1941) Document Records. The recordings are from Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas. "Come On Let's Go To Burying" is a version of "New Buryin' Ground." Here are two closely related versions:
NEW BURYIN' GROUND- Sung by John Brown and group of convicts, State Prison, Raiford, Florida, who do a near professional job, with interjections. Collected by John and Ruby Lomax, 1939 Southern States Recording Trip.
CHORUS: Oh, come along, come along, let's go to buryin', (3 times)
Way over, way over in de new buryin' ground. (whoof!)
Sinners, don't you hear my Lord a-callin', (Whuff!)
O sinners, don't you hear, hear my Lord a-callin',
O sinners, don't you hear my Lord a-callin'
Way over, over in de buryin' ground. (Whoo!)
Oh, de hammer keep a-ringin',(Hoo!) ringin' on somebody's coffin, (3 times)
Way over, (Come here!) over in de new buryin' ground. (Whuff!)
Oh, de hearse keep a-rollin', rollin' somebody to the graveyard, (Come here, boy!) (3 times)
Way over, (Water boy!), over in de new buryin' ground.
De preacher keep a-preachin, preachin' somebody's fun'ral, etc.
Sometimes I pray like, pray like my time ain't long, etc.
Sometimes I feel like, feel like my time ain't long, etc.
NEW BURYING GROUND- Source: transcription of Willie Williams and Group 'Virginia Traditions: Virginia Work Songs' Global Music CD-1007
Oh come on, come on, let's go to burying (x3)
Way over, over in the new burying ground
Oh hammer keep a-ringing on somebody's coffin (x3)
Well over, over on the new burying ground
Oh it must have been Lazarus that the people was buryin' (x3)
Way over, over in the new burying ground
Oh come on, come on, let's go to burying (x3)
Way over, over in the new burying ground
It must have been the captain that the people was buryin' (x3)
Way over, over in the new burying ground
Come On Let's Go To Burying- Negro Religious Field Recordings Vol. 2 (c.1924-1941)
Let's go to buryin', come on come on
Let's go to buryin', come on come on
Let's go to buryin', come on come on
Way over, the new buryin' ground.
Children don't you hear, hear, my Lord a callin'
Children don't you hear, hear, my Lord a callin'
Children don't you hear, hear, my Lord a callin'
Way over, the new buryin' ground.
Hear the mighty rumblin' sinner goin' back home
Hear the mighty rumblin' sinner goin' back home
Hear the mighty rumblin'
Way over, the new buryin' ground
Come on, let's go to buryin'
Come on, let's go to buryin'
Come on, let's go to buryin'
Way over, the new buryin' ground
Ev'rybody runnin goin to the graveyard
Ev'rybody runnin goin to the graveyard
Ev'rybody runnin goin to the graveyard
Way over, the new buryin' ground.
Somebody dying, oh Lord
Somebody dying, oh Lord
Somebody dying, oh Lord
Way over, the new buryin' ground
Somebody's coffin, hammer keep a ringin'
Somebody's coffin, hammer keep a ringin'
Somebody's coffin, hammer keep a ringin'
Way over, the new buryin' ground
Come on, let's go to buryin'
Come on, let's go to buryin'
Come on, let's go to buryin'
Way over, the new buryin' ground
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