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Don't You See?/I Got a Home in That Rock
Traditional Spiritual and Bluegrass Song
ARTIST: From The American Journal of Religious Psychology and Education - Page 326; Volume 3 July, 1909. No. 8: Religious Folk-Songs Of the Southern Negros by Howard W. Odum
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CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel
DATE: 1800s; 1907 Work; Recorded Biddle University Quartet 1920
RECORDING INFO: Don't You See?/I've Got a Home in That Rock [Me III-C 26]
Sm - Death Ain't Nothing But a Robber ; Ain't That Good News
Solomon, Jack & Olivia (eds.) / Sweet Bunch of Daisies, Colonial Press, Bk (1991), p167 [1939] (Home in that Rock)
Lynn, Frank (ed.) / Songs for Swinging Housemothers, Fearon, Sof (1963/1961), p324 (Home in that Rock)
Sing Out Reprints, Sing Out, Sof (1959), 1, p48 (Home in that Rock)
Work, John W. / American Negro Songs and Spirituals, Dover, Bk (1998/1940), p169 (Got a Home in that/the Rock)
Carter Family. Country & Western Classics, Time-Life Records TLCW-06, LP (1982), trk# 2.04 [1935/05/08] (God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign)
Jewish Young Folksingers. Hootenanny Tonight, Folkways FN 2511, LP (1963/1954), trk# B.03 (Home in that Rock)
Marshall, Charley. Charley Marshall Sings Folk, Ikon IER 109, LP (1956?), trk# A.02 (Better Get a Home in that Rock)
Shanty Boys. Shanty Boys, Elektra EKL 142, LP (1958), trk# 12 (Home in that Rock)
Stanley, Ralph. Distant Land to Roam. Songs of the Carter Family, Columbia DM2, CD (2005), trk# 1 (God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign)
Weavers. Gilbert, Ronnie, et.al (ed.) / Weavers' Song Book, Harper & Row, Sof (1960), p 15 (Home in that Rock)
Weavers. Weavers at Carnegie Hall, Vanguard VRS 9010, LP (1955), trk# B.07
White, Josh. Josh White, Vol 2, Earl Archives BD-619, LP (1989), trk# B.03 [1935/03/18] (I Got a Home in that Rock)
OTHER NAMES: "I've Got A Home in That Rock" "I Got a Home in That Rock" "Got a Home in That Rock" "I Got a Home In-A Dat Rock" "God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign"
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SOURCES: Meade; Folk Index; Ballad Index
NOTES: "Don't You See?" is a traditional spiritual usually titled "I've Got A Home in That Rock." This version is from The American Journal of Religious Psychology and Education - Page 326; Volume 3 July, 1909. No. 8: Religious Folk-Songs Of the Southern Negros by Howard W. Odum. The song appears in John Work's 1907 book, Folk Songs of the American Negro:
I GOT A HOME IN THAT ROCK
I got a home in that rock,
Don't you see? don't you see?
Between the earth and sky,
Thought I heard my Savior cry.
The song is popular in bluegrass circles under the title, "God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign" as recorded by The Carter Family in 1929.
DON'T YOU SEE? From Religious Folk-Songs Of the Southern Negrosby Howard W. Odum:
This conception, intensified by the negro's emotional nature and self-pity, is still prominent. Not only is his home to be a happy one, but it is to be exclusive; only the fortunate, of whom he is the chiefest, may go there. This class of songs—of Heaven and home—is perhaps as large as any. The negro sings:
I got a home where liars can't go,
Don't you see?
Jus' between the heaven an' earth,
Where my Saviour bled an' died,
I got a home where liars can't go,
Don't you see?
I got a home where sinners can't go,
Don't you see?
Jus' between the earth an' sky,
Where my Saviour bleed an' die,
Don't you see?
When the earth begin to shake,
Don't you see?
You better get a ticket or you 'll be late,
Don't you see?
In the same way the singers repeat, using the words " drunkards," "hypocrits", and other sinners. Sometimes instead of saying "I got a home where the drunkards can't come", the sinner will say "where the drunkards can't find me". Another version of the same song is found in different localities:
I got a home in the Rock,
Don't you see?
Just between the heaven an' earth,
Well, yes, I got a home in the Rock,
Don't you see?
Judas was a deceitful man,
Don't you see?
Well he betrayed the innercent Lam',
Well he lost a home in the Rock,
Don't you see?
Well the sun refuse to shine,
Don't you see?
The sun refuse to shine,
An' the sun refuse to shine,
Don't you see?
God don't talk like a natural man,
Don't you see?
God don't talk like a natural man,
He talk so sinners can understand
Don't you see?
Well I don't want to stumble,
Don't you see?
Well I don't want to fall,
I read that writin' on de wall,
Don't you see?
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