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Dead And Gone/All the Friends I Had Dead and Gone/All De Friend I Had/My Poor Mother Died A-Shoutin'
Traditional Old-Time, Gospel;
ARTIST: Vera Hall & Dock Reed, in 1950/ Jane McDonald (Aunt Mollie), near Livingston, AL. John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Bluegrass Gospel;
DATE: 1918; First Recorded in 1927 by Smith's Sacred Singers
RECORDING INFO: Dead and Gone/All the Friends I Had Dead and Gone
At - My Mother Died A-Shouting
Rm - Every Time I Feel the Spirit
Barnes, Doc (Brady). Rosenbaum, Art (ed.) / Folk Visions & Voices. Traditional Music & So...., Univ. of Georgia, Bk (1983), p 34 [1977/12/07]
Solomon, Jack & Olivia (eds.) / Sweet Bunch of Daisies, Colonial Press, Bk (1991), p234 [1938ca]
Lomax, Allen/ Jane McDonald (Aunt Mollie), near Livingston, AL. John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
Vera Hall & Dock Reed (1950) on Folkways FE4418, FA2691
OTHER NAMES: "All De Friend I Had Dead and Gone," "Dead and Gone" "Dear and Gone" "My Poor Mother Died A-Shoutin'"
RELATED TO: My Poor Mother Died A-Shoutin'
SOURCES: Folk Index;
NOTES: "Dead and Gone" or "All the Friends I Had Dead and Gone" is a traditional spiritual. A great version, titled "My Poor Mother Died a' Shouting," using lyrics usually associated with as "Dead and Gone" was performed by the North Carolina gospel quartet Mitchell's Christian Singersat the Spirituals to Swing concert at the Carnegie Hall, NYC in Dec. 1938: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weVLSKjifWo
My Poor Mother Died a' Shouting:
My dear mother died a-shoutin'
All the friend I have's dead and gone.
My poor brother died a-shoutin',
All the friend I have's dead and gone.
"My Mother died a shoutin'" is found as early as 1909 in Howard Odum:
My mother died a shoutin', an' I goin' die shoutin', too,
Yes, my mother died a shoutin' an' I goin' die shoutin', too.
"Dead and Gone" is also recorded in Solomon, Honey in the Rock: The Ruby Pickens Tartt Collection (p. 41; words only). The words are substantially the same, though the stanzas 2 and 3 are reversed in order. The note says, "Dock Reed's version appears both on the Library of Congress recordings and the Courlander series." The latter, I think, is "Dead and Gone" (sung by Vera Hall & Dock Reed, in 1950) on Folkways FE4418, FA2691 (Gospel Records 1943-1969, vol. 1, p. 335), which I haven't. Songs titled "All the Friends I Got Is Gone" by Blind Jesse Harris and "Dead and Gone" by Elsie Jenkins were both recorded in 1937 for the Library of Congress, but seem to be unissued (Blues and Gospel Records 1890-1943, Oxford).
The earliest version appears in the 1922 JOAFL in the article "Negro Spirituals from the Far South" by Perkins.
6. DEAD AND GONE- JOAFL 1922
Chorus: Dead and gone, dead and gone,
All the friend I have's dead and gone.
My dear mother died a-shoutin',
All the friend I have's dead and gone.
(Chorus)
My poor brother died a-shoutin',
All the friend I have's dead and gone.
(Chorus)
My poor sister died a-shoutin',
All the friend I have's dead and gone.
(Chorus)
My poor father died a-shoutin',
All the friend I have's dead and gone.
(Chorus)
My poor Elder died a-shoutin',
All the friend I have's dead and gone.
(Chorus)
ALL THE FRIEND I HAD IS DEAD EN GONE- Dock Reed 1950
All the friend I had,
All the friend I had,
All the friend I had,
Dead en gone.
CHORUS: Gone to the graveyard,
Gone to the graveyard,
All the friend I had,
Dead en gone.
Weepin' Mary,
Weep no longer,
All the friend I had,
Dead en gone.
My po' mother
Died a-shoutin',
All the friend I had,
Dead en gone.
ALL DE FRIEND I HAD IS DEAD AND GONE- Jane McDonald (Aunt Mollie), near Livingston, AL. John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip.
CHORUS: All de friend I had, all de friend I had,
All de friend I had is dead and gone.
Gwine to de graveyard, gwine to de graveyard,
All de friend I had is dead and gone.
CHORUS:
My po' mother died a-shoutin',
All de friend I had is dead an' gone.
Gwine to de graveyard, etc.
CHORUS:
Weepin' Mary, weep no longer,
All de friend I had is dead an' gone.
CHORUS:
Gwine to de graveyard, etc.
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