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Death Don't Have No Mercy
Traditional spiritual;
ARTIST: Rev. Gary Davis
SHEET MUSIC:
YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5qx0I2tyTI&feature=related
CATEGORY: Traditional and Shape-Note Gospel;
DATE: 1800s; 1909 "Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes"
RECORDING INFO: Death Don't Have No Mercy - Davis, Gary (Rev.)
Davis, Reverend Gary. Pure Religion!, Prestige PR 7805, LP (196?/1960), trk# 6
Davis, Reverend Gary. Grossman, Stefan (ed.) / Rev. Gary Davis - Blues Guitar, Oak, Sof (1974), p114
OTHER NAMES: "Death Come To My House," "Death Is in This Land"
RELATED TO: "Death Don't Have No Mercy"
SOURCES: 1909 Howard W. Odum, "Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes" (American Journal of Psychology and Education, vol. iii, p. 356).
"Death Is in This Land," collected by Lawrence Gellert, Me and My Captain (New York, 1936), p. 30. 1I The Negro Caravan, p. 470. 13 John A. Lomax "Self Pity in Negro Folk-Songs" The Nation (August 9, 1917), p. 144.
NOTES: "Death Don't Have No Mercy" is an African-American spiritual first recorded Rev. Gary Davis in 1960. It has been covered many times by Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead.
Several similar traditional versions include "Death Come To My House He Didn't Stay Long" (1925) and "Death Is in This Land" or originally titled "Death Is In Dis Lan'" is an African-American spiritual first published in 1909 by Howard Odum.
"The Second Book Of Negro Spirituals" under the title "Death Come To My House He Didn't Stay Long":
CHORUS: Hallelu-u-u
Hallelu, O my Lord,
I'm gwine-ter see my mother again
Hallelu, Hallelu.
Death come to my house, he didn't stay long
I look on de bed, an' my mother was gone
I'm gwine-ter see my mother again, Hallelu.
Death Is In Dis Lan'- Howard Odum 1909
Ever since my Lord has set me free,
Death is in dis lan',
This ole worl' bin a hell to me,
Death is in dis lan'.
I'm so glad death is in dis lan',
I'm so glad death is in dis lan'
O run 'long mourner 'n git yo' crown,
Death is in dis lart,
By yo' father's side set down,
Death is in dis lan'.
Some er dese mornin's bright and fair,
Death is in dis lan',
Gwin' r hitch on my wings an' try de air,
Death is in dis lan.'
Death Don't Have No Mercy- Traditional, Rev. Gary Davis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5qx0I2tyTI&feature=related
Em Am B7
Death don't have no mercy in this land
G A7 D7 G B7
Death don't have no mercy in this land
Em
He'll come to your house and he won't stay long
Am C7
You'll look in the bed and somebody will be gone
Em B7 C7 B7 Em
Death don't have no mercy in this land
Well Death will go in any family in this land
Well Death will go in every family in this land
Well he'll come to your house and he won't stay long
Well you'll look in the bed and one of your family will be gone
Death will go in any family in this land
Well he never takes a vacation in this land
Well old Death never takes a vacation in this land
Well he'll come to your house and he won't stay long
Well you'll look in the bed and your mother will be gone
Death never takes a vacation in this land
Well he'll leave you standin' and cryin' in this land
Well Death will leave you standin' and cryin' in this land
Well he'll come to your house and he won't stay long
You'll look in the bed and somebody will be gone
Death will leave you standin' and cryin' in this land
Old Death always in a hurry in this land
Old Death always in a hurry in this land
Well he'll come to your house and he won't stay long
You'll look in the bed and your mother will be gone
Death always in a hurry in this land
Well he won't give you time to get ready in this land
Well he won't give you time to get ready in this land
Well he'll come to your house and he won't stay long
Well you'll look in the bed and somebody will be gone
Death won't give you time to get ready in this land
Death Don't Have No Mercy- transcribed by Cheryl Rhodes, who wrote, "from Blind Gary Davis/Harlem Street Songs recorded in Englewood Cliffs, NJ August 24, 1960 (according to the liner notes) and released on CD under the Prestige/Bluesville Records (Fantasy) label."
Death don't have no mercy in this land
Death don't have no mercy in this land
He'll come to your house and he won't stay long
You'll look in the bed and somebody will be gone
Death don't have no mercy in this land
Well Death will go in any family in this land
Well Death will go in every family in this land
Well he'll come to your house and he won't stay long
Well you'll look in the bed and one of your family will be gone
Death will go in any family in this land
Well he never takes a vacation in this land
Well old Death never takes a vacation in this land
Well he'll come to your house and he won't stay long
Well you'll look in the bed and your mother will be gone
Death never takes a vacation in this land
Talk
Great God
Yeah
Well he'll leave you standin' and cryin' in this land
Well Death will leave you standin' and cryin' in this land
Well he'll come to your house and he won't stay long
You'll look in the bed and somebody will be gone
Death will leave you standin' and cryin' in this land
Old Death always in a hurry in this land
Old Death always in a hurry in this land
Well he'll come to your house and he won't stay long
You'll look in the bed and your mother will be gone
Death always in a hurry in this land
Well he won't give you time to get ready in this land
Well he won't give you time to get ready in this land
Well he'll come to your house and he won't stay long
Well you'll look in the bed and somebody will be gone
Death won't give you time to get ready in this land
Make your last talk
Talk to me Death
Talk to me
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