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Dar'll Be No Distinction Dar/There'll Be No Distinction There
Traditional Old-Time, Gospel;
ARTIST: collected from Bryan Banks, a pupil of the school at Alliance, Pamlico county, 1927. From the Brown Collection of NC Folklore.
YOUTUBE:
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;
DATE: probably 1800s; 1927 Brown; First recorded by Blind Alfred Reed with Arville Reed in New York, NY, Dec. 3, 1929
RECORDING INFO: There'll Be No Distinction There [Me II-P21]
Carter Family. Clinch Mountain Treasures, County CCS 112, Cas (1991), trk# 6 [1940/10/03]
Carter Family. Last Recordings, Vol. 1, Old Homestead OHCS 330, Cas (1991), trk# B.06 [1940?]
New Lost City Ramblers. Songs of the Depression, Folkways FH 5264, LP (1959), trk# A.02
New Lost City Ramblers. Cohen, John, Mike Seeger & Hally Wood / Old Time String Band Songbook, Oak, Sof (1976/1964), p232
Reed, Blind Alfred. How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live, Rounder 1001, LP (1972), trk# B.07 [1929/12/03]
OTHER NAMES: "There'll Be No Distinction There"
SOURCES: Meade; Folk Index
NOTES: "Dar'll Be No Distinction Dar" or "There'll Be No Distinction There" is a spirituals about racial equality first recorded by Blind Alfred Reed with Arville Reed in New York, NY, Dec. 3, 1929. This version from the Brown Collection was collected from Bryan Banks, a pupil of the school at Alliance, Pamlico county, 1927.
563. Dar'll Be No Distinction Dar
A desire for the abolition of racial discrimination and climatic variability constitutes the theme of this unusual song.
"Negro fragment." From Julian P. Boyd, as collected from Bryan Banks, a pupil of the scliool at Alliance, Pamlico county, 1927.
1 Up in Heben,
So dey say,
Dar ain't no snow;
All through de winter day
De watermillions grow,
For by de laws of de just.
And de laws of de right,
We'll all be white in Heben's delight.
Chorus: Dar'll be no distinction dar,
Dar'll be no distinction
On dat beautiful shore,
Dar'll be no distinction dar.
2. For by de laws of de just,
And de laws of de right.
We'll all be white in Heben's delight,
Dar'll be no distinction dar.
The song under the title, "There'll Be No Distinction There," was recorded by Blind Alfred Reed in 1929. The Carter Family recorded their version in 1940. Here's Blind Alfred Reed's lyrics:
THERE'LL BE NO DISTINCTION THERE (Blind Alfred Reed) (1929)
There'll be no sorrow on that heavenly shore,
There'll be no woes at the cabin door.
We'll all be wealthy and the poor will all be there,
We'll be rich and happy in that land bright and fair,
There'll be no distinction there.
There'll be no distinction there,
There'll be no distinction there,
For the Lord is just and the Lord is right,
And we'll all be white in that heavenly light,
There'll be no distinction there.
In the same kind of raiment and the same kind of shoes,
We'll all sit together in the same kind of pews,
The whites and the colored folks, the gentiles and the Jews,
We'll praise the Lord together and there'll be no drinking booze,
There'll be no distinction there.
Oh when we get to heaven, we will know and understand;
No woman will be flirting with another woman's man.
There'll be no trouble in that holy happy land;
We'll play on golden instruments and shout to beat the band,
There'll be no distinction there.
We're never blue in heaven, nothing there to wreck the mind;
Everybody is our neighbor, all the folks are good and kind.
No aggravating women there to boss the men around;
When we enter into heaven, we will wear a golden crown,
There'll be no distinction there.
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