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Dip Me In de Golden Sea
Jubilee Song by Edward Harrington (words); David Braham (music) 1881
ARTIST: by Edward Harrington (words); David Braham (music)
SHEET MUSIC:
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;
DATE: 1881;
RECORDING INFO: Dip Me In De Golden Sea
Frank and James McCravy 1928 (recorded two more times by them)
OTHER NAMES: "Dip in the Golden Sea" "Dipping in the Golden Sea"
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SOURCES: Meade; American Memory; The Sydney Morning Herald
NOTES: "Dip Me In de Golden Sea" is a public domain jubilee song from Edward Harrington (words) and David Braham (music) in 1881. It made its full appearance as the commercial pseudo-spiritual or "Jubilee song" around 1880, and Braham produced an example in 1881, "Dip Me in de Golden Sea," which sported the pentatonic scale.
According to The Sydney Morning Herald on Thursday September 21, 1882 it was performed by Alfred Lawton as "Dip in the Golden Sea." "Dip Me in the Golden Sea," was recorded by early country musicians Frank and James McCravy in 1928.
Other variants of the original include this chorus:
Dip me — dip me —
dip me — dip me —
Dip me in de golden sea.
Dip Me In de Golden Sea- Edward Harrington (words); David Braham (music) 1881 [text incomplete]
VERSE: Oh, I long for to reach dat hebenly shore,
To dip in de Golden Sea;
To meet old Peter a standing in de door,
To dip in de Golden Sea;
He'd say to me, "Oh, how do you do?
Come set right down yonder in de ivory pew,
*De gospel train will wait for you
Den dip me in de golden sea.
CHORUS: Den dip me — bathe me
Sisters you and me
Dip me in de golden sea;
Come get in de boat for we all gwine to float
For to dip in the Golden Sea.
*this line taken from another version
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