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Daniel in the Lion's Den (Ballad)
Traditional Old-Time, Gospel and Ballad;
ARTIST: The Brown Collection of NC Folklore 1916
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: Ballad (1819); Song 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"
SOURCES: Meade; Folk Index
NOTES: "Daniel in the Lion's Den" is also a ballad. This version is from the Brown Collection and is essentially the same as found in the 1830 Camp-Meeting Chorister (see that version: http://bluegrassmessengers.com/daniel-in-the-lions-den-ballad--chorister-1830-.aspx) Part 1.
There's also a group of different traditional gospel songs titled, "Daniel in the Lion's Den." They were 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 Quartetterecorded 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- Brown Collection
'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."
524 Daniel in the Lion's Den
1. Among the Jewish captives one Daniel there was found,
Whose unexampled piety astonished all around.
He was so very pious and faithful to his Lord,
Three times a day he howed to supplicate his God.
2. Amongst the King's high princes this Daniel was the first —
The King preferred the spirit this Daniel did possess.
His unexampled piety sustained a jealousy;
The princes sought his ruin, obtained a firm decree.
3. Should any man or woman a supplication bring
For thirty days ensuing, save to thee, O King —
Or any Lord or Master or any other man —
They should without distinction fall in the lion's den.'
4. But soon as Daniel heard it, straight to his home he went;
To beg his God's protection, it was his whole intent.
His windows being open, before his God he bowed.
The princes were assembled and saw him worship God.
5 They came to King Darius and spoke of his decree.
Saying, 'This Hebrew Daniel doth nothing care for thee —
Before his God he boweth three times in every day.
With all his windows open — and we have heard him pray.'
6 When King Darius heard it, his heart did so relent;
He set his heart on Daniel his sentence to prevent.
His Nobles all assembled and to the King they said,
'Remember you great honor, likewise the law you made.'
7. Then King Darius ordered that Daniel should be brought
And cast into the lion's den because the Lord he sought.
The King then said to Daniel, 'The God whom you adore
Will save you from the lions and bless vou evermore.'
8 The King went to his palace and fasted all the night.
He neither ate nor drank, nor in music took delight.
So early the next morning he stole along the way
And came unto the lion's den where this bold Hebrew lay.
9. Then with a voice of mourning, to Daniel cry'd aloud.
Saying, 'O Daniel, Daniel- the servant of the Lord--
Is not thy God sufficient for to deliver thee?
That God in whom they trusteth and serves continually.'
10 "My God has sent His angel and shut the lion's jaws,
So that they have not hurt me — my enemies He saw.'
Straightway the King commanded to take him out the den —
Because in God he trusted no harm was found in him.
11 See how this faithful Daniel feared not the face of clay.
'Was not the King's commandment could make him cease to pray,
lie knew that God was ahle to save his soul from death.
He trusted in Jehovah — he prayed at every breath.
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