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Dar's A Better Day A Comin'/There's A Better Day A-Comin'
Traditional Old-Time, Gospel;
ARTIST: a title of a spiritual taken from George Pullen Jackson's White And Negro Spirituals.
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CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;
DATE: 1800s; 1848; 1856
RECORDING INFO: Dar's A Better Day A Comin'
Jackson, George Pullen. White And Negro Spirituals.
OTHER NAMES: "There's A Better Day A-Comin'"
SOURCES: Meade; Folk Index
NOTES: "Dar's A Better Day A Comin'" is a title of a spiritual taken from George Pullen Jackson's White And Negro Spirituals. Jackson relates it to "There's A Better Day A-Comin'" which is a chorus found in the 1854 Southern Harmony.
The song is possibly mistitled by Jackson, who quotes the song as "In Dat Great Gittin'-up Mornin'" from Fenner, 1874, Hampton Singers. It could be "Dere's A Better day A Comin'":
1. Dere's a better day a-comin',
When my Lord speaks to His Fadder,
Says, Fadder, I'm tired o' bearin',
Tired o' bearin' for poor sinners,
Oh, preachers, fold your Bibles,
Prayer-makers, pray no more,
For de last soul's converted.
The first report of the song/line comes from a March 3, 1848 interview with the African-American slave Charity Bowery (See: A Few More Beating of The Wind and The Rain):
“There’s a better day a coming--
There’s a better day a coming--
Oh, Glory, Hallelujah!”
Th lyrics are associated "In That Great Gettin Up Morning" and are also found in "The Negro Music of the South" in The Southern Workman and Hampton School Record Vol. 22, No. 11, Nov., 1893:
Solo—Dere's a better day a-comin'
Refrain—Fare you well! fare you well!
Dar's A Better Day A Comin'- Jackson- Hampton School
Dar's a better day a-comin'
Fare you well, fare you well.
When my Lord speaks to his fader,
Fare you well, fare you well.
There's A Better Day A-Comin'- Jackson- Southern Harmony
There’s a better day a coming
Hallelujah
There’s a better day a coming
Hallelujah
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