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Dere Is No Hidin' Place Down Yhar/There's No Hiding Place Down There
Traditional Old-Time, Spiritual and bluegrass gospel;
ARTIST: Mary Walker Finley Speers, "Negro Songs and Folk-Lore," p. 436, JAFL, vol. 23, no. 90, 1910.
SHEET MUSIC:
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;
DATE: 1800s; this version, circa 1910
RECORDING INFO: Dere Is No Hidin' Place Down Yhar/No Hiding/Hidin' Place Down Here [Me III-C 33]
Us - No Hiding Place
No Hiding Place [Me III-C 33]
Lynn, Frank (ed.) / Songs for Swinging Housemothers, Fearon, Sof (1963/1961), p331
Best, Dick & Beth (eds.) / New Song Fest Deluxe, Hansen, Sof (1971/1948), p150
Tobitt, Janet E. (ed.) / Ditty Bag, Tobitt, Sof (1946/1939), p145b
Work, John W. / American Negro Songs and Spirituals, Dover, Bk (1998/1940), p149
Carter Family. Longing for Old Virginia, Rounder 1071, CD (1998), trk# 16 [1934/12/11] (There's No Hiding Place Down Here)
Clifton, Bill. Carter Family Album, London SLH101, Cas (1990/1961), trk# 12 (No Hiding/Hidin' Place Down Here)
Duncan, Laura. Sing Out Reprints, Sing Out, Sof (1959), 9, p45
Maddy, Roger and Janice. Place of My Dreams, Voyager VRLP 324-S, LP (197?), trk# B.02
Maddy, Roger and Janice. Northwest Regional Folklife Festival. Vol II, Voyager VRLP 102-S, LP (1978), trk# A.10 (No Hiding/Hidin' Place Down Here)
Nashville Bluegrass Band. Ben & Jerry's Newport Folk Festival '88 Live, Alcazar ALC 105, LP (1989), trk# B.05 [1988]
Wayside Trio. Winners. California State Fair Exposition, Ikon IER 106, LP (1964), trk# B.03b
J. W. Johnson in 1925 (1969) in The Books of American Negro Spirituals, Book I, p. 74-75, with music.
OTHER NAMES: "There's No Hiding Place Down There" "No Hiding Place"
RELATED TO: "Can't Hide" "Can't Hide Sinner" "You Can't Hide" songs
SOURCES: Folk Index; J. W. Johnson in 1925 (1969) in The Books of American Negro Spirituals, Book I, p. 74-75, with music.
NOTES: "Dere's No Hidin' Place Down Dere" or "There's No Hiding Place Down There" is part of a large group of traditional spirituals that are known by the main title "No Hidin' Place." This one is a title using dialect that was published by Mary Walker Finley Speers, "Negro Songs and Folk-Lore," p. 436, JAFL, vol. 23, no. 90, 1910. Found in Virginia, Washington, D. C., and Maryland. Included in this family of songs are the "Can't Hide," "Can't Hide Sinner," "You Can't Hide," "Sinner Man" songs.
The Carter family recorded the spiritual as, "There's No Hiding Place Down Here" in 1934. Other early versions include the 1910 "Dere Is No Hidin' Place Down Yhar" in the JOAFL and the 1912 "No Hidin' Place."
NO HIDIN'-PLACE- Kentucky Negroes, 1912
1. Dahuh's no hidin'-place daown dah-uh!
Uh went tuh de rock tuh hide muh face,
De rock said, "Back, no hidin'-place!"
Dah-uh no hidin'-place daown dah-uh!
2. De sinnuh man gamble, en' he fell; (3x)
He wanted tuh go tuh Heb'n, but he fell tuh hell.
3. De sinnuh man stood at de gates u' hell; (3x)
De gates flew op'n, en in he fell!
No. 46, no score; E. C. Perrow, "Songs and Rhymes From the South," parts III and IV, Jour. American Folklore, vol. 26 pp. 123-173, 1913.
DERE IS NO HIDIN' PLACE DOWN YHAR- Mary Walker Finley Speers [text incomplete]
1. O-oo sinner man, sittin' on de gates ub yhell,-
Dere is no hidin' place down yhar,-
O-oo sinner man, sittin' on de gates ub yhell,-
Dere is no hidin' place down yhar,
O-oo sinner man sittin' on de gates ub yhell,-
De gates floo open, en de sinner man fell,
Dere is no hidin' place down yhar.
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