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Daniel in the Lion's Den
Traditional Old-Time, Gospel and Ballad;
ARTIST: Norfolk Jubilee Quartette 1927
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
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]
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
OTHER NAMES: "Daniel in de Lion's Den"
RELATED TO: "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel"
SOURCES: Meade; Folk Index
NOTES: 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 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.
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.
"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 180s (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."
Daniel in the Lion's Den (He Locked the Lion's Jaw) (Traditional)
Rosetta Tharpe, vocal and guitar; Katie Bell Nubin, vocal;Sammy Price, piano; Billy Taylor, Sr., string bass; Herbert Cowans, drums. Recorded July 7,1949, in New York.
Originally issued on Decca 48116-B (75039).
CD NOTES: Gospel lyrics of such extreme simplicity strike some listeners as simpleminded. Actually, here is a fine example of the gospel code at work. Since slavery, Daniel, the Hebrew children, and Jonah have been symbolic figures whose deliverance from impossible situations related specifically to the plight of
black Americans. In a gospel church, where such references are understood, a mere phrase ("through many dangers"; "my soul looks back"), a name, or even a hum
can concentrate enough meaning to stir the listener.
Rosetta Tharpe was the first successful product of the Church of God in Christ. As a girl in Arkansas she used to attend church conventions and heard the rousing vocal
and piano style of the blind Arizona Dranes. Dranes, Tharpe, and other early Sanctified singers exhibit a precise, almost mannered diction and a relentless syncopation.
Though Tharpe recorded with big bands, sang in nightclubs, and occasionally
performed blues, her gospel repertory consisted primarily of Church of God in Christ shout songs she learned from her mother, Katie Bell Nubin. This recording
begins with a curious tom-tom effect and a contagious exchange between Tharpe's Sanctified guitar and Sammy Price's boogie-woogie piano. Then, as if to cancel this
eclecticism, there is a duet between Rosetta, all bouncy showmanly uplift (one can't miss her scattershot repetitions of "he locked"), and her mother, whose laconic, unornamented style helps keep matters serious. Each singer ends differently, Nubin with a slurred, matter-offact "jaw," Tharpe with a stylish “jaw-aw-aw”; the generation gap closes in harmony. Mother Nubin died in the late sixties, close to ninety; Tharpe outlived her by only a few years. For all Rosetta's worldly ways, she remained a Sanctified daughter.
Daniel in the den, in the den, in the den,
Jonah in the belly of the whale.
He locked the lion's jaw, he locked the lion's jaw,
He locked the lion's jaw.
Send down your Son, your Son, your suffering Son,
And see what the good Lord has done.
Shadrack, Meshack,and Abednego,
Jonah in the belly of the whale.
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