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Don't Feel No Ways Tired
SEE ALSO: I Don't Feel No Ways Tired
Traditional Spiritual
ARTIST: From Evening Four on Bluebird in 1937
YOUTUBE: James Cleveland http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_4tDOO1fZ0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RemjPD7Ma6k
SHEET MUSIC: CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;
DATE: 1874
RECORDING INFO: Don't Feel No Ways Tired
Evening Four Don't Feel No Ways Tired Bluebird 1937
Hampton and Its Students (1874, p. 228, with tune)
John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
R. Nathaniel Dett "I Am Seeking For A City" Religious Folk Songs..., p. 36-37; 1927
OTHER NAMES: "Don't Feel Like I'se Anyways Tired;" "I Am Seeking For A City"
RELATED TO:
SOURCES: Hampton and Its Students (1872, p. 228, with tune).
NOTES: "Don't Feel No Ways Tired" or "I Don't Feel No Ways Tired" is a traditional spiritual from the Evening Four on Bluebird in 1937. One of he earliest versions is from Fenner's Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs: Hampton and Its Students in 1874, p. 228, with tune. R. Nathaniel Dett retitled the song "I Am Seeking For A City" in his Religious Folk Songs..., p. 36-37 in 1927.
The Evening Four's version is closer to "Don't Feel Like I'se Anyways Tired" collected by Lomax in 1939. Unfortunately I can't understand the lyrics that the bass soloist is singing so I'm adding other traditional lyrics to fill-in.
Modern versions of "I Don't Feel No Ways Tired" by James Cleveland and others, also known as "I've Come Too Far From Where I've Started From," are much different than the early spiritual version.
Don't Feel No Ways Tired- Evening Four 1937
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/12383
CHORUS: Good Lordy, I don't feel no-ways tired,
Gimme that Ol' glory Hallelujah, (Hallelujah)
Oh Lord I hope to shout in glory when the whole world is on fire,
Gimme that glory Hallelujah (Oh Hallelu).
Repeat CHORUS
*[Bass] Hear those angels singin'
[Group] un-huh...
[Bass] Hear the wheel a-turning
[Group] un-huh...
[Bass] Hear those people prayin'
[Group] un-huh...
[Bass] The Lord is comin' in the mornin'
CHORUS: Good Lordy, I don't feel no-ways tired,
Gimme that Ol' glory Hallelujah, (Hallelujah)
Oh Lord I hope to shout in glory when the whole world is on fire,
Gimme that glory Hallelujah (Oh Hallelu).
Repeat CHORUS
[Bass] Hear those angels singin'
[Group] un-huh...
[Bass] Hear the wheel a-turning
[Group] un-huh...
[Bass] Hear those people prayin'
[Group] un-huh...
[Bass] The Lord is comin' in the mornin'
Repeat CHORUS
*hard to understand bass solo
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