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Departed Loved Ones
Public Domain Old-Time, Bluegrass Gospel; C. W. Byron & Arthur F. Ingler 1897
ARTIST: As recorded by the Carter Family February 15, 1929 on Vi V-40150
YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P3NVr54Uxw
SHEET MUSIC:
CATEGORY: Traditional And Public-Domain Gospel;
DATE: 1800s; 1933
RECORDING INFO: Departed Loved Ones
RELATED TO: Honest Farmer
OTHER NAMES: "The Wayworn Traveler" "Palms of Victory"
SOURCES: Folk Index; Meade
NOTES: "Departed Loved Ones " was written by C. W. Byron & Arthur F. Ingler in 1897 (see original lyrics below) and recorded by The Carter Family in 1929. Meade credits the music to L.L. Pickett and words to C. W. Byron.
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Departed Loved Ones
Marie Campbell, in "Funeral Ballads of the Kentucky Moun-
lains," SFLQ iii 112, prints a text of this hymn, obtained in 1933
from the singing of an eighty-one-year-old woman, who "said she
could not remember when her family had not 'knowed that air
ballet pine-blank like I done sung hit.' "
'Departed Loved Ones.' From MS book of songs lent to Dr. Brown in
August 1936 by Miss Lura Wagoner, Vox, Alleghany county. Several
of the songs were dated, some 1911, some 1913.
1. Is it wrong to wish to meet them
Who were dear to us in life?
Shall we check the rising sadness
Since they're free from toil and strife?
2. I've a mother up in heaven,
And oh, tell me if you will.
Will my mother know her children
When to glory they will go?
3. Does she watch me from those windows
While I'm on this distant shore?
Will she know when I am going?
Will she meet me at the door?
4. I've a father, too, in glory,
And oh, tell me if you know.
Will my father know his children
When we meet on Canaan's shore?
5. In that land are saintly children
Who are happy now and free.
Shall we ever reach those mansions,
All those darling ones to see?
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