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Death Ain't You Got No Shame
Tradtional spiritual;
ARTIST: Alan Lomax in Folksongs of North America 1960
SHEET MUSIC:
YOUTUBE: Those Poor Bastards - Death ain't you got no shame?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KzIiVyhj54
CATEGORY: Traditional and Shape-Note Gospel;
DATE: 1800s; 1940
RECORDING INFO: Death Ain't You Got No Shame
Lomax, Alan / Folksongs of North America, Doubleday Dolphin, Sof (1975/1960), p249/#129
Eberhart, Jon/Jonathan. Life's Trolley Ride, Folk Legacy FSI 082, LP (1981), trk# B.05
Robinson, Francis A.. Jackson, George P.(ed.) / Spiritual Folk Songs of Early America, Dover, Sof (1964/1937), p173/#158 [1932ca]
Jackson, George Pullen. Spiritual Folksongs, No. 158
Calhoun Plantation Songs p.21
OTHER NAMES: "Death Ain't You Got No Shame, Shame"
RELATED TO:
SOURCES: John Work in American Negro Songs 1940.
NOTES: "Death Ain't You Got No Shame" is an African-American spiritual. It was collected and published by Alan Lomax in Folksongs of North America 1960. An earlier version was collected from African-Americans in Beaufort, South Carolina titled, "Det' Ain't Yuh Got No Shame" and was published in the 1931 The Carolina Low-Country.
George Pullen Jackson published a version in Spiritual Folksongs, No. 158 and a variant may be found in Calhoun Plantation Songs p.21.
Death Ain't You Got No Shame- Arranged Matteson
1. Death, ain't you got no shame, shame?
Death, ain't you got no shame, shame?
Death, ain't you got no shame, shame ?
Death, ain't you got no shame?
2. Left his pap-py to *morn, morn,
Left his pap-py to morn, morn.
Left his pap-py to morn, morn,
Left his pap-py to morn.
3. Left his mama to morn, morn,
4. Let his widow to weep, weep
*or "Left his pap-py to *moan, moan,
DET’ AIN’T YUH GOT NO SHAME- 1931 The Carolina Low-Country (Words from a Gullah spiritual melody)
1. *Det’ ain’t yuh got no shame, shame,
Det’ ain’t yuh got no shame, shame,
Det’ ain’t yuh got no shame, shame,
Det’ ain’t yuh got no shame.
2. Tek my chile en gone, gone,
Tek my chile en gone, gone,
Tek my chile en gone, gone,
Tek my chile en gone.
3. Tek my ma en gone, gone,
Tek my ma en gone, gone,
Tek my ma en gone, gone,
Tek my ma en gone.
4. Tek my pa en gone, gone,
Tek my pa en gone, gone,
Tek my pa en gone, gone,
Tek my pa en gone.
det’ - death
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