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Dere's A Meetin' Heah Tonight/There's A Meeting Here Tonight
Traditional Old-Time, Spiritual and Revival hymn;
ARTIST: Allen et al., Slave Songs of the United States, p. 9;
SHEET MUSIC:
CATEGORY: Traditional Bluegrass Gospel;
DATE: Circa 1867
RECORDING INFO: There's a Meeting Here Tonight
Rt - Play on the Hill
Allen, William Francis, et.al (eds.) / Slave Songs of the United States, Dover, Sof (1995/1867), # 11 [1860s]
Work, John W. / American Negro Songs and Spirituals, Dover, Bk (1998/1940), p219
Fisk Jubilee Singers. Marsh, J. B. T. / Story of the Jubilee Singers, Houghton Mifflin, Bk (1880), p184/# 65
Gibson, Bob. "There's a Meeting Here Tonight"
Helms, Jim. 5-String Banjo Greats, Liberty LST 7357, LP (196?), trk# 1
Joe & Eddie. There's a Meetin' Here Tonite, GNP Crescendo T 90034, LP (1963), trk# A.01
Limeliters. Tonight: In Person, RCA (Victor) LSP 2272, LP (1961), trk# A.01
Village Five and Then Some. Co-op Hootenanny, CCB, LP (1965), trk# A.01
OTHER NAMES: "There's A Meeting Here Tonight."
RELATED TO: "We'll Camp a Little While in the Wilderness,"
SOURCES: Folk Index; Allen et al., Slave Songs of the United States, p. 9;
NOTES: "Dere's A Meetin' Heah Tonight" is a title found in Gerald Grey's "Fifty Negro Spirituals," Imperial Edition; York, Nebraska: J.A. Parks Company, 1930. (arr. J.A. Parks, Marion Moor or Gerald Grey) for the spiritual usually titled "There's A Meeting Here Tonight." The version here is from the 1867 book, Slave Songs, which has the chorus:
Dere's a meeting here to-night.
Dere's a meeting here to-night,
Oh! (Brudder Tony,) Dere's a meeting here to-night,
Oh! (Sister Rina,) Dere's a meeting here to-night,
I hope to meet again.
The song was a popular minstrel song and a version titled, "Dar's a meeting here tonight" by Pete Devonear (Boston: John F. Perry & Co., 1875): Levy collection and also at Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 (Library of Congress).
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Here are some versions of "There's A Meeting Here Tonight"
There's A Meeting Here Tonight
Get you ready
There’s a meeting here tonight
Come along
There’s a meeting here tonight
I know you by your daily walk
There’s a meeting here tonight
Camp meeting down in the wilderness
There’s a meeting here tonight
I know it’s among the Methodists
There’s a meeting here tonight
Get you ready
There’s a meeting here tonight
Come along
There’s a meeting here tonight
I know you by your daily walk
There’s a meeting here tonight
You say you’re aiming for the skies
There’s a meeting here tonight
Why don’t you stop your telling lies?
There’s a meeting here tonight
Get you ready
There’s a meeting here tonight
Come along
There’s a meeting here tonight
I know you by your daily walk
There’s a meeting here tonight
THERE'S A MEETING HERE TONIGHT
CHORUS: Get you ready, there's a meeting here tonight
Come along, there's a meeting here tonight
I know you by your daily walk,
There's a meeting here tonight
1. Camp meeting in the wilderness
There's a meeting here tonight
I know it's among the Methodist
There's a meeting here tonight
2. My father says it is the best
There's a meeting here tonight
To live and die a Methodist
There's a meeting here tonight
3. There's fire in the East, there's fire in the West
There's a meeting here tonight
I know it's among the Methodist
There's a meeting here tonight
"Dar's a meeting here tonight" by Pete Devonear (Boston: John F. Perry & Co., 1875): Levy collection and also at Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 (Library of Congress).
First Line: If I had a wife and a little baby, Dar's a meeting here tonight
First Line of Chorus: Git yer ready, Dar's a meeting here tonight
THERE'S A MEETING HERE TO-NIGHT (Fisk Jubilee)
With music, No. 65, p. 84, Marsh, J. B. T., 1880's, "The Story of the Jubilee Singers; with Their Songs." Revised, seventy-fifth thousand. Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston.
Refrain: Get you ready, there's a meeting here tonight,
Come along, there's a meeting here tonight;
I know you by your daily walk,
There's a meeting here tonight.
1. Camp-meeting down in the wilderness,
There's a meeting here tonight;
I know it's among the Methodists,
There's a meeting here tonight.
2. Those angels wings are tipped with gold,
There's a meeting here tonight;
That brought glad tidings to my soul,
There's a meeting here tonight.
3. My father says it is the best, etc.
To live and die a Methodist, etc.
4. I'm a Methodist bred and a Methodist born, etc.
And when I'm dead there's a Methodist gone, etc.
THERE'S A MEETING HERE TO-NIGHT (from Allen et al., Slave Songs of the United States, p. 9; with music):
1. I take my text in Mattew, and by de Revelation,
I know you by your garment,
Dere's a meeting here to-night.
Dere's a meeting here to-night,
Oh!/(Brudder Tony,) Dere's a meeting here to-night,
Oh!/(Sister Rina,) Dere's a meeting here to-night,
I hope to meet again.
2. Brudder John was a writer, he write de laws of God;
Sister Mary say to brudder John, "Brudder John, don't write no more."
Dere's a meeting here to-night, Oh! (Brudder Sandy,)(bis)
Dere's a meeting here to-night,
I hope to meet again.
[Mrs. Bowen gives us the following beautiful variation, as sung in Charleston:]
I see brudder Moses yonder,
And I think I ought to know him,
For I know him by his garment,
He's a blessing here to-night;
He's a blessing here to-night,
He's a blessing here to-night,
And I think I ought to know him,
He's a blessing here tonight.
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