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Don’t You Want to Go Up There/Come and Go with Me to My Father's House
Traditional Spiritual
ARTIST: from John Jackson
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Mattie Moss Clark directing and Dewayne Melton as a soloist.
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel
DATE: 1800s; 1898
RECORDING INFO: Don't You Want to Go Up There?
Jackson, John. John Jackson in Europe, Arhoolie 1047/10095, LP (1970), trk# 13
RECORDING INFO: Come and Go with Me to My Father's House
Clayborn, Edward. 1929 Brunswick Come and Go with Me to My Father's House
Gospel Harmonettes (Birmingham, Ala.) Come and Go with Me to My Father's House 1983 Smithsonian Folkways Records
Taggart, Blind Joe. Document Records Vol. 2; Come and Go with Me to My Father's House
RECORDING INFO: In My Father's House [Me III-C 31]
Us - There'll Be Joy, Joy, Joy
There'll Be Joy, Joy, Joy [Me III-C 31]
Sandburg, Carl (ed.) / American Songbag, Harcourt, Sof (1955/1928), p483 (In My Father's House)
Carter Family. My Old Cottage Home, RCA Camden ACL1-0047(e), LP (1973), trk# 7 [1934/12/11]
Carter Family. Old-Time Family Religion, Camden CAS 816(e), LP (1964), trk# A.06 [1934/12/11]
Carter Family. Longing for Old Virginia, Rounder 1071, CD (1998), trk# 11 [1934/12/11]
Carter Family. Carter Family on Border Radio, JEMF 101, LP (1970ca), trk# A.12 [1938-41]
Howard, Lake. Singing Farmer, County 409, LP (1977), trk# B.07 [1935/05/01] (Within my Father's House)
OTHER NAMES: "My Father's House" "Within my Father's House" "There'll Be Joy, Joy, Joy"
RELATED TO: Plenty Good Room
SOURCES: Folk Index;
NOTES: "Don’t You Want to Go Up There" a tradtional spiritual by John Jackson. It's also known as "Come and Go with Me to My Father's House" or "In My Father's House". The first recording under the "Come and Go with Me to My Father's House" title was made by Rev. Edward Clayborn in 1929 for Brunswick. The lyrics have also been arranged by contemporary Christian groups.
LINER NOTES: 7. Don’t You Want to Go Up There (Also known as “In My Father’s House”; recorded July 2, 1970; from archive reel FP-1970-7RR-0040)
This is an old African American spiritual called “In My Father’s House.” Carl Sandburg published a version in 1927 in his classic book, The American Songbag, that was collected from black singers in Fort Worth, Texas. John’s version is similar to the Carter Family’s version, which they called “There’ll Be Joy, Joy, Joy,” and it is possible that their version is the one John heard.
Ballad Index- In My Father's House
DESCRIPTION: "There ain't no liars there in my Father's house (x3), Oh, there's peace, peace everywhere." "There ain't no crapshooters there...." "There ain't no cardplayers there...."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1927 (Sandburg)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad virtue cards
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Sandburg, p. 483, "In My Father's House" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Carter Family, "There'll Be Joy, Joy, Joy" (Bluebird B-5911/Montgomery Ward M-4547, 1935)
There'll Be Joy, Joy, Joy is a spiritual usually known as "In My Father's House." It was recorded first by the Four Wanderers in 1929. A version (In My Father's House) is printed in Carl Sandburg's American Songbag, Harcourt, Sof (1955/1928), p483.A version titled "There'll Be No Liars There" was recorded in 1927 by the Hickory Nuts.
THERE'LL BE JOY, JOY, JOY (excerpt)- Carter Family 1934
There'll be joy, joy, joy
Up in my father's house
Up in my father's house
Up in my father's house
There'll be joy, joy, joy
Up in my father's house
Where there's peace, sweet peace
We will all be happy there
Up in my father's house
Up in my father's house
Up in my father's house
We will all be happy there
Up in my father's house
Where there's peace, sweet peace
To my Father's House- Les Humphries Singers
Come and go with me
to my father's house
to my father's house.
Come and go with me
to my father's house
to my father's house.
There'll be no cryin' there.
There'll be no dyin' there.
Come and go with me
to my father's house
to my father's house.
In my father's house.
There are so many mansions there.
If they were not true
you know I would have told you so.
I'm goin' to prepare
a place for you
and where I go you
can go there too.
Come and go with me
to my father's house
to my father's house.
Come and go with me
to my father's house
to my father's house.
Come and go with me
to my father's house
to my father's house.
There'll be no cryin' there.
There'll be no dyin' there.
Come and go with me
to my father's house
to my father's house.
TO MY FATHER'S HOUSE
Oh come and go with me to my father's house
To my father's house, to my father's house
I said won't you come and go with me, yes, to my father's house
Where there's joy, joy, joy in my father's house
Oh come and go with me, yes
To my father's house
Everything is free
In my father's house
Life with you and me,
I tell you, in my father's house,
Come just as you are,
To my father's house
Nothing's on the par
In my father's house
There's music everywhere,
Well, well in my father's house
Food enough to spare
People have no fear
I tell you, in my father's house
I tell you there ain't no signs of hate
In my father's house
Folks all integrate
In my father's house
Come and bring your mate
In my father's house, in my father's house
Oh come let's have a ball
In my father's house
Summer last to fall
In my father's house
Good times have we all
In my father's house
Come and Go With Me To My Father's House- Blind Joe Taggart
Come and go with me to my Father's house
To my father's house, to my Father's house.
Come and go with me to my Father's house
it's peace, peace, peace.
[slide guitar solo]
Ain't no trouble there in my Father's house
In my father's house, in my Father's house.
Ain't no trouble there in my Father's house
It's peace, peace, peace.
[slide guitar solo]
Ain't no liars there, in my Father's house
In my father's house, in my Father's house.
Ain't no liars there in my Father's house
It's peace, peace, peace.
[slide guitar solo]
All I have to bear in my Father's house
In my father's house, in my Father's house.
All I have to bear in my Father's house
It's peace, peace, peace.
[slide guitar solo]
Ain't no dyin' there in my Father's house
In my father's house, in my Father's house.
Ain't no dyin' there in my Father's house
It's peace, peace, peace.
Don’t You Want to Go Up There- John Jackson (lyrics upcoming- this is based on Carter family)
[instrumental]
Don't you want to go up there to my father's house
To my father's house, to my father's house
Don't you want to go up there to my father's house
Where there's peace sweet peace
We'll be happy there up in my fathers house
Up in my father's house up in my father's house
We'll be happy there up in my fathers house
Where there's peace sweet peace
There'll be no drunkards there up in my father's house
We'll all be as one up in my father's house
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