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Daniel in the Lion's Den
NOTE: This is not "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel"
Traditional Old-Time, Gospel and Ballad;
ARTIST: Bessie Jones and The Georgia Sea Island Singers 1975
YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgHTrJYGu1o&feature=watch_response
Daniel in the Lions' Den- Norfolk Jubilee Quartette 1927
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfgb6IGhDXo
Joe Carter (scroll down): http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/joecarter/particulars.shtml
Jesus Won't You Come By Here? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48jYdwQKfTQ&feature=related
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;
DATE: circa 1882 Yale Songs; First recorded by Dixon Brothers 1926
RECORDING INFO: Daniel in the Lion's Den [Sh 194/Me III-B14]
Dixon Brothers for OKeh
Garrison, Lucy. Sharp & Karpeles / English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians II, Oxford, Bk (1932/1917), p273/# 194 [1917/08/11]
Bessie Jones “Daniel's in the Lion's Den” by Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers
North Carolina Cooper Boys
Norfolk Jubilee Quartette
RECORDING INFO: Jesus Won't You Come By Here
Sheet Music: http://www.dancesofuniversalpeacena.org/
documents/JesusWontYouComeby.pdf
At - Daniel in the Lion's Den
Sandburg, Carl (ed.) / American Songbag, Harcourt, Sof (1955/1928), p469
Allen, William Francis, et.al (eds.) / Slave Songs of the United States, Dover, Sof (1995/1867), # 81 [1860s]
Blood, Peter; and Annie Patterson (eds.) / Rise Up Singing, Sing Out, Sof (1992/1989), p 94
Fahey, John. Christmas Guitar, Vol. 1, Varrick 002, LP (1982), trk# 16a
Hopkins, Lightning; and Barbara Dane. Lightning Hopkins with his Brothers, ... and with Barbara Dane, Arhoolie 1022, LP (1966), trk# B.05 [1961/11/26]
Redpath, Jean; and Lisa Neustadt. Angels Hovering Round, Fretless 138, LP (1978), trk# B.05
OTHER NAMES: "Daniel in de Lion's Den"
RELATED TO: "Who Did Swallow Jonah" "Jesus, Won't You Come By Here?"
SOURCES: Meade; Folk Index
NOTES: This version is from Bessie Jones and The Georgia Sea Island Singers in 1975. The traditional gospel song, "Daniel in the Lion's Den" was recorded by both white and black groups starting in the mid-1920s. "Daniel in de Lion's Den" was recorded in 1926 by the Dixon Brothers for OKeh and the North Carolina Cooper Boys recorded "Daniel in the Den of Lions" in 1927. The black gospel group, Norfolk Jubilee Quartette recorded "Daniel in the Lions' Den" in 1927. Norfolk Jubilee version (below) is different than the Dixon Brothers and Cooper Boys versions which Meade references to the following song, "Who Did," as a source.
A version appears under the title "Who Did" in Yale Songs: A Collection of Songs in use by the Glee Club and students of Yale in 1882 and again in the 1889 edition (with music) that can be viewed on-line: http://books.google.com/books?id=07IQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9&dq=1882+Yale+Songs+Who+Did&
cd=3#v=onepage&q&f=false You'll need to enter p. 128 to find it.
WHO DID- 1882 version of Daniel in the Lion's Den (Yale Songs) First verse:
Daniel (Daniel) Daniel (Daniel)
Daniel in the li- li- li- li-
Daniel (Daniel) Daniel (Daniel)
Daniel in the li- li- li- li-
Daniel (Daniel) Daniel (Daniel)
Daniel in the li- li- li- li-
Daniel in the lion's
Daniel in the lion's den.
"Who Did" is a version of "Who Did Swallow Jonah?" which is closely related to the Daniel in the Lion's Den songs. Here's the Ballad Index info:
Ballad Index: Who Did Swallow Jonah?
DESCRIPTION: "Who did (x4), Who did swallow Jo-Jo-Jonah?... Who did swallow Jonah down?" "Whale did... swallow Jonah whole." "Noah in the arky... bailed." "Daniel... in the lion's den." "David... killed Goliath."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1912 (recording, Fisk University Jubilee Quartette)
KEYWORDS: Bible religious humorous
FOUND IN: US(Ap,SE)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
MHenry-Appalachians, p. 196, "Jonah and the Whale" (1 text)
BrownIII 346, "Jonah and the Whale" (6 texts and/or fragments, but only the "D" and "E" texts and the "F" fragment are this piece; "A" and "B" are "Jonah and the Whale (Living Humble)" and "C" is "Hide Away")
Silber-FSWB, p. 386, "Who Did Swallow Jonah" (1 text)
RECORDINGS:
Fisk University Jubilee Quartette, "Peter on the Sea" (Edison Amberol 978, 1912)
Mustard and Gravy, "The Whale Did, I Know He Did" (Bluebird B-7905, 1938)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Daniel in the Den of Lions" (on NLCR16)
North Carolina Cooper Boys, "Daniel in the Den of Lions" (OKeh 45174, 1927; on CrowTold02)
Utica Institute Jubilee Singers, "Peter on the Sea" (Victor 21925, 1929)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Hide Away (Jonah and the Whale)" (subject) and references there
ALTERNATE TITLES:
Daniel in the Den of Lions
The Whale Did, I Know He Did
Notes: This may actually be two songs; I have a recording by the Brandy Snifters claiming to derive their piece from two 78s, "Daniel in the Den of Lions" by the North Carolina Cooper Boys and "The Whale Did, I Know He Did" by Mustard and Gravy. The verses of this collated version, however, are almost all found in the Folksinger's Wordbook text, though with differences in order. Pending more examples, I'm treating the piece as a unity.
The story of the fish (NOT a whale!) which swallowed Jonah is related in Jonah 2. The Hebrews in the fiery furnace ("Shadrack, Meshak, Abindigo" -- all misspelled, be it noted) are a reference to Daniel 3. The story of Noah and the Ark (actually two stories collated) is in Genesis 6-8. David and Goliath (again, two stories collated) occupy 1 Samuel 17. - RBW
Listening to "Daniel in the Den of Lions," it's clearly the same song as, "Who Did Swallow Jonah?" - PJS
But that still leaves the mystery of "The Whale Did, I Know He Did." - RBW
I'd guess that "The Whale Did" is essentially the same song, with the title changed. - PJS
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"Daniel in the Lion's Den" is also a ballad found in 1830 in Camp-Meeting Chorister (see that version: ) and a version was collected in 1916 that came from the mid-1800s (see Brown). Details follow:
The Brown collection has the following information: Daniel in the Lion's Den
In a miscellaneous untitled collection of American broadsides in the Houghton Library of Harvard University there is a broadside of 'Daniel in the Lion's Den.' undated and without indication of printer or publisher. It is in sixteen stanzas and begins, "Among
the Judith captives, one Daniel there was found."
'Daniel in the Lion's Den' appears (without music or indication of authorship) in Peter D. Myers's The Zion Songster: A Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Generally Sung at Camp and Prayer Meetings, and in Rez'ii'als of Religion (New York, 1829,
1834, 1844), pp. 304-6 (1844 ed.). The same ballad also appears, with a "Second Part" relating the fate of Daniel's enemies, in The Camp-Meeting Chorister: or, A Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs, for the Pious of All Denominations to Be Sung
at Camp Meetings, etc. (Philadelphia. 1852). pp. 173-6. SharpK II p. 273 prints one stanza with music. The Library of Congress Check-List lists two songs with this title, both from South Carolina. Davis FSV 311-12 lists two texts by title.
Between the Zion Songster and the Blades texts (eleven stanzas in each) there are verbal differences in every stanza, twenty-six in all; e.g.: stanza 1, Zion "nations" for Blades "captives," and "They say him" for "He was": stanza 6, "Now when Darius" for
"When King Darius," "soul" for "heart," "The Prince then" for "His Nobles all." These indicate copying from memory. There are similar differences from The Camp-Meeting Chorister text.
'Daniel in the Lion's Den.' From Camden Charles Blades. Elizabeth City, Pasquotank county, March 25, 1916; with the note: "The words to this were sent to my Grandfather by his sister in a letter she wrote sometime between 1845- 1854. It is not known where she got them from. This was found in his scrapbook."
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Another song closely related to the Daniel in the Lion's Den songs is "Jesus, Won't You Come By Here?" An early version was published in 1867 book Slave Songs under the
title, "Jesus Won't You Come By and By."
Jesus, Won't You Come By Here? (Daniel in the Lion's Den) from Rise Up Singing- Chapter: Gospel, p. 94
Chords: D - G D - - A - / D - G D - A D -
Jesus, won't you come by here?
Jesus, won't you come by here?
Jesus, won't you come by here?
Now is the needed time
Now is the needed time
Jesus, won't you come by here?
Listen, can't you hear me call?
Listen, can't you hear me call?
Jesus won't you come by here?
Now is a needed time
Now is a needed time
Jesus won't you come by here?
And Daniel was in the lions' den
And Daniel was in the lions' den
Daniel in the lions' den
He said, "Lord, have mercy on me"
He said, "Lord, have mercy on me"
Jesus, won't you come by here?
He said, "Lord, you said you'd answer prayer"
He said, "Lord, you said you'd answer prayer"
He said, "Lord, you said you'd answer prayer"
Well the Lord, He sent an angel down
Well the Lord, He sent an angel down
Well the Lord, He sent an angel down
And the angel locked the lions' jaws
And the angel locked the lions' jaws
And the angel locked the lions' jaws.
Daniel in the Lion's Den- Bessie Jones and The Georgia Sea Island Singers; Recorded: 29 August 1975 by the Stephen Foster Center; 1975 Florida Folk Festival, White Springs, Florida (S 1576, reel T79-15)
LISTEN: http://www.floridamemory.com/Collections/folklife/mp3/CD3/09daniel.mp3
Oh Daniel, Daniel in the lion's den Lord
Daniel in the lion's den Lord
Daniel in the lion's den.
Oh Daniel in the lion's den Lord
Daniel in the lion's den Lord
Daniel in the lion's den.
He cried, "Lord have-a mercy on me."
He cried, "Lord have-a mercy on me."
Lord have-a mercy on me.
He cried, "Lord have-a mercy on me."
He cried, "Lord have-a mercy on me."
Lord have-a mercy on me
He said, "Now is the needed time."
Cried, "Now is the needed time."
"Now is the needed time."
He said, "Now is the needed time."
Cried, "Now is the needed time."
"Now is the needed time."
Lord You promised to answer prayers
You promised to answer prayers
You promised to answer prayers
Lord You promised to answer prayers
You promised to answer prayers
You promised to answer prayers
*God'll send the angels down
Yes God'll send the angels down
God'll send the angels down
God'll send the angels down
Yes God'll send the angels down
God'll send the angels down
The angels locked the lions jaws
Angels locked the lions jaws, Lord
The angels locked the lions jaws
Angels locked the lions jaws. Lord
The angels locked the lions jaws
*"God er send" is more accurate
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