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Dem Bones Gonna Rise Again/Creation
NOTE: This is not "Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones" but a different song about Adam and Eve.
SEE: Creation
Traditional Spiritual; Published as Jubilee Song with Words and Music by George W. Scott 1880
ARTIST: spiritual collected from Boy Scout Songbook
YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgVdWii47rk
SHEET MUSIC:
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;
DATE: 1800s; 1880 Scott
RECORDING INFO: Dese Bones Goin' to Rise Again [Laws I18/Me I-B125]
At - These Bones Going/Gonna to Rise Again
Lomax, J. A. & A. Lomax / American Ballads and Folk Songs, MacMillan, Bk (1934), p597
Laws, G. Malcolm / Native American Balladry, Amer. Folklore Society, Bk (1964/1950), p255
Sandburg, Carl (ed.) / American Songbag, Harcourt, Sof (1955/1928), p470
Lynn, Frank (ed.) / Songs for Swinging Housemothers, Fearon, Sof (1963/1961), p309 (These Bones Going/Gonna to Rise Again)
Best, Dick & Beth (eds.) / New Song Fest Deluxe, Hansen, Sof (1971/1948), p146
Lomax, Alan / Folksongs of North America, Doubleday Dolphin, Sof (1975/1960), p476/#249
Belleville A Cappella Choir. Southern Journey. Vol. 11: Honor the Lamb, Rounder 1711, CD (1998), trk# 12 [1960/04/28] (Creation)
Fairfield Four. I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray, Warner 46686-2, CD (1997), trk# 2 (These Bones)
Hudson, Ophelia. Solomon, Jack & Olivia (eds.) / Sweet Bunch of Daisies, Colonial Press, Bk (1991), p225 [1938ca] (Dry Bones Gonna/Gwiner Rise Again)
Seekers. Seekers, Pickwick SPC-3068, LP (197?), trk# A.05
Song Spinners. Johnson, Margaret & Travis (eds) / Early American Songs from ... the Spi, AMP, Fol (1943), #22
Lonesome Pine Twins (McCravy), DE'S BONES GWINE RISE AGAIN, Supertone for Sears 2020, Jan 1928.
Jubilee Gospel Team, THESE BONES GONNA RISE AGAIN, QRS 7013, recorded Sept 1928.
Southern Plantation Singers, DE'S BONES GWINE RISE AGAIN, Vocalion 1219, recorded Sept 26, 1928.
Ranking Bros, THESE BONES GONNA RISE AGAIN, Conqueror 7276, recorded Apr 10, 1929.
Frank & James McCravy, DESE BONES GWINE RISE AGAIN, Banner 32243, Sept 1930.
David & Howard, MY BONES GONNA RISE AGAIN, Victor 23577, recorded May 19, 1931.
Arthur Cornwall & John Gibson, MY BONES IS GONNA RISE AGAIN, Champion 16379, recorded Dec 7, 1931.
Hartman's Tennessee Ramblers, DESE BONES GONNA RISE AGAIN, Bluebird 6089, recorded Aug 04, 1935.
Swan Silvertone Singers, THESE BONES GWINE RISE AGAIN, Queen 4137, recorded July 1946.
Spencers Minstrels, DESE BONES SHALL RISE AGAIN, Leeds & Catlin 4075, date unknown.
Silver Echo Quartet, THEM BONES SHALL RISE AGAIN, Arco 1201, date unknown.
RECORDING INFO: Dem Bones (Dem Bones, Dem Dry Bones)
Group of African-Americans. Lomax, John A. & Alan Lomax / Our Singing Country, MacMillan, Sof (2000/1941), p 23 [1933]
RECORDING INFO: Dry Bones [Me III-C 60]
Lloyd, A. L. & Isabel Arete de Ramon y Rivera (eds.) / Folk Songs of the, Oak, Sof (1966), # 63
Herder, Ronald (ed.) / 500 Best-Loved Song Lyrics, Dover dn500/500, Sof (1998), p 89
Cook, Judy. Far from the Lowlands, Cook CEI-JC02-0005, CD (2000), trk# 19
Hayes, Roland. My Songs, Vanguard VRS- 494, LP (1956), trk# A.05
Lunsford, Bascom Lamar. Anthology of American Folk Music, Smithsonian/Folkways SFW 40090, CD( (1997), trk# 51 [1928/02]
Lunsford, Bascom Lamar. Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Smithsonian SF 40082, CD (1996), trk# 11 [1928/02]
Redpath, Jean; and Lisa Neustadt. Angels Hovering Round, Fretless 138, LP (1978), trk# A.04
Rustical Quality String Band. Rustical Quality String Band, Red Dog RD 8312, LP (1983), trk# B.07
Dry Bones Gonna/Gwiner Rise Again
OTHER NAMES: "These Bones Gonna Rise Again" "Dese Bones Gwine Rise Again"
RELATED TO: "Dry Bones" "Dem Bones" "Dem Dry Bones" "Bones, Bones, Bones (Ezekiel In the Valley)"
SOURCES: Folk index; Carl Sandburg (ed.) American Songbag, Harcourt, Sof (1927), p470
NOTES: "Dem Bones Gonna Rise Again" or "Dese Bones Gonna Rise Again" is a traditional gospel campsong collected from the Boy Scout Songbook. It's a call and response gospel song that's related but a different song from "Dem Bones (Dem Bones, Dem Dry Bones)" or "Dry Bones" (see versions and info below). It does not try and teach the connection of different bones and is instead a song usually about Adam and Eve. The chorus (when sung) is similarly:
Chorus: I know it brother, brother,
Indeed I know it brother, I know it- Hey!
Dem bones gonna rise again.
The Seekers version, These Bones Are Gonna Rise Again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnGHWcrk4oQ&feature=related is a one-part song without a second part. They sing for the chorus:
Don't I know it, didn't I know it
These bones are gonna rise again
Several versions were collected and printed in N. I. White, 1928, "American Negro Folk-Songs" and The Brown Collection of NC Folklore under the title, "Creation," because the song is usually about Adam and Eve.
Another early version is "Dese Bones Gwine Rise Again" found in Carl Sandburg, 1927, "The American Songbag," Harcourt, Brace & o., New York. The song was first published with words and music by George W. Scott in 1880:
DESE BONES SHALL RISE AGAIN- George W. Scott
Boston: John F. Perry & Co., 1880.
1. Oh, young children, don't be shamed
Dese bones shall rise again.
To deny your father's name.
Dese bones shall rise again.
Judgment day is rollin' round.
Dese bones shall rise again.
When de gospel trumpet it shall sound.
Dese bones shall rise again.
CHORUS: Den I know, I do know, children,
I know dat dese bones shall rise again.
Den I know, I do know, children,
I know dat dese bones shall rise again.
2. Some dese mornin's bright and fair,
Dese bones shall rise again.
We'll meet de Lord up in de air.
Dese bones shall rise again.
I know my back's chock full ob sin.
Dese bones shall rise again.
I know Uncle Pete's gwine to let me in.
Dese bones shall rise again.
3. Come, ye children, go wid me.
Dese bones shall rise again.
I'se gwine whar de Lord will sot us free.
Dese bones shall rise again.
I'll shake de dust right off my feet,
Dese bones shall rise again.
And walk up and down dem golden streets.
Dese bones shall rise again.
Whether Scott wrote this or merely arranged a version he heard is unknown. It's simply an old jubilee song from the late 1800s when jubilee songs like "Climbin' Up De Golden Stairs" were popular.
The related but different bones songs with are "Dem Bones," "Dry Bones" or "Dem Dry Bones" used allegedly to teach basic anatomy to children (although its description is not anatomically correct). The melody has been attributed to African-American author, collector and songwriter James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) who published a version in 1925. Two versions of this traditional song are used widely, the second an abridgement of the first. The lyrics are based on Ezekiel 37:1-14, where the prophet visits the Valley of Dry Bones and causes them to become alive by God's command.
The chorus of the song is as follows:
Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones.
Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones.
Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones.
Now hear the word of the Lord.
Followed by the verses:
Toe bone connected to the foot bone
Foot bone connected to the leg bone
Leg bone connected to the knee bone...
Ballad Index- Saw the Light from Heaven (Dry Bones (I))
DESCRIPTION: "Enoch lived to be Three hundred and sixty-five And the Lord came down And took him up to heaven alive. I saw, I saw, I saw the light from heaven come shining all around." Other assorted Bible stories, such as the dry bones in the valley
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1928 (recording, Bascom Lamar Lunsford)
KEYWORDS: religious Bible
FOUND IN: US(SE)
Roud #17922
RECORDINGS:
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, "Dry Bones" (Brunswick 231, 1928; Brunswick 314, 1929; on AAFM2, BLLunsford01, Babylon)
Notes: Among the incidents outlined here:
* Enoch's disappearance at age 365: Gen. 5:21-24
* Paul (and Silas) in prison during an earthquake: Acts 16:25-26
* Moses and the Burning Bush: Exodus 3:2ff.
* Dry bones walking: Ezek. 37:1-10
Other incidents, such as Eve's account of "Satan a-tempting me," are not directly Biblical (e.g. in Gen. 3:13, Eve blamed the Serpent for her behavior, but Satan is not named). - RBW
Gonna Rise Again- Boy Scout Songbook
Chorus: I know it brother, brother,
Indeed I know it brother, I know it HEY!
Dem bones gonna rise again.
The Lord he thought he'd make a man
Dem bones gonna rise again!
So he made Adam 'cordin' to a plan
Dem bones gonna rise again!
Thought he'd make a woman too
The Lord didn't know just what to do
Took a rib from Adam's side
For to make Miss Eve, his bride.
Peaches, pears, plums and such
Dem bones etc.
But the apple tree you better not touch
Dem bones etc.
One day Miss Eve was walkin' around
Dem bones etc.
Spied that tree all loaded down
Dem bones etc.
Serpent crawling around that trunk
Dem bones etc.
At Miss Eve his eye he wunk
Dem bones etc.
Eve, she took a little pull
Dem bones etc.
Then she filled her fig leaf full
Dem bones etc.
Adam he just took a little bite
Dem bones etc.
Said um'um woman that sure am nice
Dem bones etc.
One day the Lord was walking around
Dem bones etc.
Spied them peels all over the ground
Dem bones etc.
The Lord cried out in his mighty voice
Dem bones etc.
That shook the heavens to the joists
Dem bones etc.
Cried Adam, Adam, where art thou?
Dem bones etc.
Here I is, Lord, I's comin' now
Dem bones, etc.
Adam, Adam, did you eat these?
Dem bones etc.
No massa Lord, I 'spect it was Eve
Dem bones etc.
Then the Lord rose up in his might wrath
Dem bones etc.
Said ya'll just beat it down the path
Dem bones etc.
Put an angel at the door
Dem bones etc.
Said ya'll don't come 'round here no more
Dem bones etc.
Eve took the needle, Adam took the plow
Dem bones etc.
That's why we're all workin' now
Dem bones etc.
To this tale there ain't no more
Dem bones etc.
Eve got the apple and Adam got the core
Dem bones etc.
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