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Do Lord Remember Me
Traditional Spiritual
ARTIST: Mississippi John Hurt (Beulah Land) (Do Lord Remember Me)
YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjsIz_5e9hA
SHEET MUSIC: (1863 version)http://books.google.com/books?id=uzEZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA199&dq=dat+lonesome+valley&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html
Do Lord, Remember Me- Ernest Phipps' Holiness Quartet- 1927
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcUVscX22W0
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;
DATE: Early 1800s; 1863; Recorderd as "Do My Lord Remember Me" Deacon Leon Davis 1927 OKeh;
RECORDING INFO: Do Lord Remember Me [Me III-C 29]
Rt - Lights in the Valley [Outshine the Sun]; Gotta Travel On
Rm - Somebody Touched Me
Mf - Deadheads and Suckers
Lomax, J. A. & A. Lomax / American Ballads and Folk Songs, MacMillan, Bk (1934), p610 (When My Blood Runs Chilly and Cold)
Lomax, John A. & Alan Lomax / Folk Song USA, Signet, Sof (1966/1947), #104 (When My Blood Runs Chilly and Cold)
Blood, Peter; and Annie Patterson (eds.) / Rise Up Singing, Sing Out, Sof (1992/1989), p208 (Do Lord)
Work, John W. / American Negro Songs and Spirituals, Dover, Bk (1998/1940), p 82
Angola Choir. Angola Prison Spirituals, Arhoolie 9036, CD (2003), trk# 20 [1959/01/05] (I Take Jesus)
Fluharty, Russell. West Virginia Heritage, Page SLP 601, LP (197?), trk# B.01 (Glory Land March)
Gospel Supremes. Art of Field Recording, Vol. 1, Dust to Digital DTD 08, CD( (2007), trk# 2.23 [1977/11]
Hurt, Mississippi John. Mississippi John Hurt, Vol. 3. Sacred and Secular, Heritage (England) HT320, LP (1988), trk# 11 [1963/07/23]
Hurt, Mississippi John. Mississipi John Hurt, A Legacy, Piedmount CLPS-1068, LP (1975/1964), trk# A.07
Molton, Flora. Sisterfire!, Redwood RR 8507, LP (1985), trk# B.04
Taylor Chapel A.M.E. Church Congregation. I Kind of Believe It's A Gift, Meriweather Meri 1001-2, LP (198?), trk# 1.04 [1977]
West Maryland Highballers. West Maryland Highballers, Biograph RC 6001, LP (1963), trk# A.06 (Do Lawd Remember Me)
Deacon Leon Davis "Do My Lord Remember Me" 1927 OKeh;
OTHER NAMES: "Do Lord Remember Me" "Do Lord" "O Lord Remember Me" "Lights in the Valley" "Lord Remember Me" "When My Blood Runs Chiller and Cold" (Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip) "Do My Lord Remember Me" "Bright Lights in The Graveyard" "Far beyond The Blue Sky" "I've got a Home in Beulah Land" "I'll play My Harp in Beulah Land" 'Way Beyond The Blue"
RELATED TO: Same form as similar melody as the song group "Long Journey Home" with other titles "Deadheads and Suckers" and "Two Dollar Bill." A gospel version is "Lights in the Valley" recorded by J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers in 1935.
Also related to "Gotta Travel On" and "Done Laid Around"
SOURCES: Folk Index; Mudcat; The Continental monthly, Volume 4- 1867;
NOTES: "Do Lord Remember Me" is a traditional spiritual. This version is from Ernest Phipps' Holiness Quartet in 1927, recorded at the Bristols Sessions by Ralph Peer.
Perhaps the first printed version is from Port Royal in Beaufort County, SC. It appeared in The Continental monthly, Volume 4 1867 in the 16 page article "Under the Palmetto" by Henry George Spaulding. Written in 1863 it contains sketches of the freed slave population in Port Royal in Beaufort County, SC. The origin of this song seems to be from the early 1800s shape note song "Jesus, Thou Art the Sinner's Friend."
George Pullen Jackson says, "A negro spiritual inspired by this song [Jesus, Thou Art the Sinner's Friend in the Sacred Harp (1844), the Southern Harmony (1835), etc.] is 'Lord, Remember Me'." (Spiritual Folk-Songs of Early America, 1937; Dover, 1964, p. 144). The first stanza with refrain (2x) is:
Jesus, thou art the sinner's friend,
As such I look to thee;
Now in the bowels of thy love,
O Lord, remember me.
O Lord remember me,
O Lord remember me;
Now in the bowels of thy love,
O Lord remember me.
One of the earliest printed versions of the chorus is Day's "Revival Hymns" in 1842:
Remember me, remember me,
Dear Lord remember me;
Remember Lord thy dying groans,
Then Lord, remember me.
"Do Lord Remember Me" has the same form and similar melody as the song group "Long Journey Home" with other titles "Deadheads and Suckers" and "Two Dolar Bill." A gospel version is "Lights in the Valley" recorded by J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers in 1935.
The song is known by a number of different titles (see: OTHER NAMES above) and has been collected by John Work, Alan Lomax and others. "Do, Lord, Remember Me" is also in Grissom, The Negro Sings a New Heaven (1930; Dover, 1969, p. 68; with music)[quoted in Jackson, White and Negro Spirituals, p. 165], and Odum and Johnson, The Negro and His Songs (1925; Negro Universities Press, 1968, p. 92). The version sung by Jimmie Strothers and Joe Lee is in Various Artists, Negro Religious Songs and Services (Rounder CD 1514).
Mississippi John Hurt recorded two versions; one titled "Beulah Land" (See that version in this collection under Beulah Land) and the other the standard title, "Do Lord Remember Me."
Lomax collected two versions with similiar titles:
"When my Blood Runs Chilly and Col'" American Ballads and Folk Songs, John A. and Alan Lomax
"When My Blood Runs Chiller and Cold" (Alan Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip)
Curiously the untitled 1863 version of "Do Lord Remember Me" from Port Royal near Beaufort, SC was adapted and still in use with minor changes:
LORD, REMEMBER ME!
O do Lord, remember me!
O do, Lord, remember me!
O, do remember me, until de year roll round!
Do, Lord, remember me!
If you want to die like Jesus died,
Lay in de grave,
You would fold your arms and close your eyes
And die wid a free good will.
For Death is a simple ting,
And he go from door to door
And he knock down some, and he cripple up some,
And he leave some here to pray.
O do, Lord, remember me!
O do, Lord, remember me!
My old fader 's gone till de year roll round;
Do, Lord, remember me!
Do Lord, Remember Me- 1863 version "Under the Palmetto" by Henry George Spaulding:
What, for example, could be- more animated, and at the same time more expressive of the thought conveyed in the verse than the following chorus— the introduction to which is a sort of recitative or chant:
I'd like to die as Jesus die,
An' He die wid a freely good will.
He lay in de grabe, An' he stretchy out he arms,
O, Lord, remember me.
Chorus: O, Lord, remember me.
Do, Lord, remember me.
Remember me when de year rolls round,
O, Lord, remember me.
ADDITIONAL VERSE: O, Death he is a little man,
He goes from do' to do',
He kill some soul, an he wounded some,
An' he lef' some soul for to pray.
BEULAH LAND- Mississippi John Hurt – Key of E
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I got a mother in Beulah Land outshine the sun
A E
I got a mother in Beulah Land outshine the sun
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I got a mother in Beulah Land outshine the sun
B7 E
Way beyond the sky
Yes come on and go to Beulah Land outshine the sun
Come on and go to Beulah Land outshine the sun
come on and go to Beulah Land outshine the sun
Way beyond the sky
I got a father in Beulah Land outshine the sun
I got a father in Beulah Land outshine the sun
I got a father in Beulah Land outshine the sun
Way beyond the sky
Yes come on and go to Beulah Land outshine the sun
Come on and go to Beulah Land outshine the sun
come on and go to Beulah Land outshine the sun
Way beyond the sky
DO LORD REMEMBER ME- Mississippi John Hurt 1963
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjsIz_5e9hA
[Guitar instrumental]
CHORUS: Do Lord, do Lord, do remember me
Do Lord, do Lord, do remember me
Do Lord, do Lord, do remember me
Do, remember me
[Guitar instrumental]
When I'm on my knees praying, "Do remember me."
Lord, when I'm on my knees praying, "Do remember me."
When I'm on my knees praying, "Do remember me."
Do Lord remember me
CHORUS: Do Lord, do Lord, do remember me
Do Lord, do Lord, do remember me
Do Lord, do Lord, do remember me
Do Lord remember me
Remember all of your dying *brothers, then remember me
Remember all of your dying brothers, then remember me
Remember all of your dying brothers, then remember me
Do Lord remember me
CHORUS (sings first words plays the rest as instrumental):
Do Lord, do Lord, do remember me
Do Lord, do Lord, do remember me
Do Lord, do Lord, do remember me
Do Lord remember me
When I am in trouble, do remember me
When I am in trouble, do remember me
When I am in trouble, do remember me
Oh do Lord remember me
CHORUS (sings first words plays the rest as instrumental):
Do Lord, do Lord, do remember me
Do Lord, do Lord, do remember me
Do Lord, do Lord, do remember me
Do Lord remember me
*bros
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