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Done Found My Lost Sheep
Traditional Spiritual and Bluegrass Gospel
ARTIST: From Hopeful Gospel Quartet on "A Prairie Home Companion."
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SHEET MUSIC:
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;
DATE: probably 1800s; 1925 Johnson's Book of American Negro Spirituals
RECORDING INFO: Done Found My Lost Sheep
Lucy Simpson "Sharon Mountain Harmony" from Folk Legacy
Boatner Spiritual Chorale (arranged by Boatner 1971); Heller Recordings 2006
Johnson's Book of American Negro Spirituals, vol. 1, pp. 167-169.
OTHER NAMES: "Done Foun' My Los' Sheep"
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SOURCES: Mudcat;
NOTES: "Done Found My Lost Sheep" is a traditional spiritual. This version is from the Hopeful Gospel Quartet on "A Prairie Home Companion." The song appears in Johnson's Book of American Negro Spirituals, vol. 1, pp. 167-169 under the title, "Done Foun' My Los' Sheep." In 1971 it was arranged by Edward Boatner and appears on the Boatner Choir's CD The Man From Nazareth (Boatner Spiritual Chorale arranged by Boatner; Heller Recordings 2006).
A version of the song is on "American Folk Songs for Christmas" by Mike, Peggy and Penny Seeger (Rounder CD 0268/0269). They do it as a counting song. The chorus and first verse as above. In the second verse, 2 go away and 98 are left. The last verse, 3 go away and 97 are left.
DONE FOUND MY LOST SHEEP- Hopeful Gospel Quartet
REFRAIN: Done found my lost sheep,
Done found my lost sheep!
Done found my lost sheep!
Hallelujah! I done found my lost sheep!
Done found my lost sheep,
Done found my lost sheep!
My Lord had a hundred sheep;
One of them did go astray.
That just left Him ninety-nine!
Go to the wilderness, seek and find.
And if you find him, bring him back,
Across your shoulders, and across your back
Tell your neighbors all around--
That lost sheep has sure been found.
In that Resurrection Day
Sinner can't find no hiding-place.
Run to the mountain, the mountain move;
Run to the hill, and the hill run too
Sinner-man traveling on trembling ground
Poor lost sheep ain't never been found
Sinner, why don't you stop and pray?
You might hear your Shepherd say:
(Chorus)
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