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Crossed Old Jordon's Stream/Beyond Old Jordon's Stream/Gone Along
Old-Time Gospel and Spiritual
ARTIST: From Bird's Kentucky Corn Crackers 1831
SHEET MUSIC: http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/old-time-music/002301.HTM
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel
DATE: 1899 Old Plantation Songs; First recorded in 1931 Bird's Kentucky Corn Crackers
RECORDING INFO: Beyond Old Jordon's Stream [Me III-C 51]
Crossed Old Jordon's Stream [Me III-C 51]
At - Beyond Old Jordon's Stream
Bird's Kentucky Corn Crackers. Kentucky Country; Old Time Music From Kentucky, Rounder 1037, LP (1983), trk# 13 [1931/06/16]
New Lost City Ramblers. New Lost City Ramblers, Vol. 1, Folkways FA 2396, LP (1958), trk# 18
New Lost City Ramblers. Cohen, John, Mike Seeger & Hally Wood / Old Time String Band Songbook, Oak, Sof (1976/1964), p122
William Eleazar Barton/ Old Plantation Hymns: 1899 as "Gone Along"
OTHER NAMES: "Beyond Old Jordon's Stream," "Crossed Old Jordon's Stream," "Gone Along"
SOURCES: Folk Index; Meade, William Eleazar Barton/ Old Plantation Hymns: 1899
NOTES: Listed by Meade as "Beyond Old Jordon's Stream" the song was was recorded in 1931 by Bird's Kentucky Corn Crackers under the title of "Crossed Old Jordan's Stream" and appears in the New Lost Ramblers songbook. To fit Meade's title (which seems to be a mistake on his part) you can simple change the lyrics (as below). The song was first collected in 1899 in William Eleazar Barton's Old Plantation Hymns.
Crossed Old Jordan's Stream- Bird's Kentucky Corn Crackers 1931
Good old neighbor's gone along,
Gone along, gone along
Good old neighbor's gone along
Crossed old Jordan's stream
CHORUS: Thank God, I got religion and I do believe
And I do believe, and I do believe
Thank God, I got religion and I do believe
Crossed old Jordan's stream
Good old Mother's gone along,
Gone along, gone along
Good old Mother's gone along
Crossed old Jordan's stream
Good old Christian's gone along
Gone along, gone along
Good old Christian's gone along
Crossed old Jordan's stream
Beyond Old Jordan's Stream- As referenced by Meade
Good old neighbor's gone along,
Gone along, gone along
Good old neighbor's gone along
Beyond old Jordan's stream
CHORUS: Thank God, I got religion and I do believe
And I do believe, and I do believe
Thank God, I got religion and I do believe
Beyond old Jordan's stream
Good old Mother's gone along,
Gone along, gone along
Good old Mother's gone along
Beyond old Jordan's stream
Good old Christian's gone along
Gone along, gone along
Good old Christian's gone along
Beyond old Jordan's stream
Gone Along- Old Plantation Hymns: a collection of hitherto unpublished melodies- By William Eleazar Barton
http://books.google.com/books?pg=PP12&vq=gone+along&id=aqcNAAAAIAAJ&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html
At a meeting I used to attend frequently, one of the leading singers was Sister Bemaugh, who often started the tune. One night there came from another settlement a famous singer, a man, who quite usurped Sister Bemaugh's place. There was no denying that she felt it, as he stood up before the congregation whenever a hymn was called for, in a most comfortable frame of mind, his head turned well to the left and the thumb and finger of his right hand holding the tip of his left ear, as he sang song after song. Many of the songs were new to the congregation, and were sung as solos. and he liked them none the less on that account. Several times Sister Bemaugh attempted to start a song; but each time he was ahead of her. At first she joined in the singing; but at length, discouraged and displeased, she gave it up and sat silent. The meeting held late, and Sister Bemaugh, who usually stayed to the very end, prepared to go. She got her lantern, which she had left in one of the front corners, and was somewhat ostentatiously lighting a match, when a hymn was called for,—and the visiting brother could think of none. It was Sister Bemaugh's opportunity. She quickly lighted and turned down the wick, and began to sing, "My good old Auntie's gone along"; and all the congregation fell in with her. I can see her now, as in the dimly lighted tobacco barn where the meeting was held she stood holding her lantern and singing. She was slender and had high cheek bones, but her face was pleasant, and her voice had a certain soul-quality, with a ring of satisfaction. Almost every other note in the song is chromatic, and it is no small task to sing it well; but Sister Bemaugh sang it to perfection, standing and leading, as a woman does not commonly do, and having sung it to the end, she went along.
If the reader will pick out the notes of this song on the piano, and then sing it, swaying slowly, I think he will like it.
GONE ALONG- Old Plantation Hymns 1899
My good old Auntie she's gone along,
Gone along, gone along
My good old Auntie she's gone along
Gone across bold Jordan's stream
CHORUS: Thank God, she's got religion I do believe
I do believe, I do believe
Thank God, she's got religion I do believe
Gone across bold Jordan's stream
2—My good old mother's gone along.
3—My good old father's gone along.
4—My good old brother's gone along.
5—My good old sister's gone along.
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