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Don't You Want to Go to That Land/Come and Go with Me to That Land/
Traditional Spiritual
ARTIST: from Songs of the Church 21st Century Edition - Maroon
SHEET MUSIC:
YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CKeffmt4Wk
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel
DATE: 1900s; 1963 "Jericho-Jim Crow: a Song Play" by Langston Hughes
RECORDING INFO: Don't You Want to Go to That Land - Workman, Nimrod/Traditional
Workman, Nimrod. Come All You Coal Miners, Rounder 4005, LP (1973), trk# A.03
RECORDING INFO: Come And Go With Me To That Land
Mf - Many Long Years
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Roger McGuinn. McGuinn’s Folk Den
OTHER NAMES: "Don’t You Want to Go?" "Come And Go With Me To That Land"
RELATED TO: "Many Long Years" "Come And Go With Me"
SOURCES: 1963 "Jericho-Jim Crow: a Song Play" by Langston Hughes
NOTES: "Don’t You Want To Go To That Land?" is a traditional spiritual. It's related to "Come And Go With Me To That Land" or "Come And Go With Me" a freedom song in the early 1960s civil rights movement and appeared in the 1963 "Jericho-Jim Crow: a Song Play" by Langston Hughes, which helped popularlize the spiritual. Numerous versions can be found on Youtube.
Don't You Want to Go to That Land was recorded by Nimrod Workman (Come All You Coal Miners, Rounder 4005, LP (1973), trk# A.03). Workman's version of the older spiritual "Don't You Want to Go to That Land" interpolates some protest lyrics. For example, he would sing:
Don't you want to go with me to that land,
Don't you want to go with me to that land,
Don't you want to go with me to that land,
Where I go, where I go?
Be no strip mining in that land . . .
No low wages in that land . . .
No exploitation in that land....
DON'T YOU WANT TO GO TO THAT LAND- Songs of the Church 21st Century Edition - Maroon
Verse 1 Don't you wanta go to that Land?
Don't you wanta go to that Land?
Don't you wanta go to that Land
Where I'm bound, where I'm bound?
* Nothin' but peace in that land.
* Nothin' but Joy in that land '
* Nothin' but smiles in that land.
* I've got a Savior in that land.
* Well, Yes I wanta go to that land.
Don’t You Want To Go To That Land (online source)
Don’t you wanna go to that Land? (3x)
Where I’m bound, where I’m bound.
Don’t you wanna go to that Land? (3x)
Where I’m bound, where I’m bound.
Nothing but love in that Land (3x)
Where I’m bound, where I’m bound.
Nothing but love in that Land (3x)
Where I’m bound, where I’m bound.
Nothing but joy in that Land (3x)
Where I’m bound, where I’m bound.
Nothing but joy in that Land (3x)
Where I’m bound, where I’m bound.
Don’t you wanna go to that Land?
Nothing but love in that Land,
Nothing but joy in that Land
Where I’m bound, where I’m bound.
Nothing but peace in that Land,
‘Cause I’ve got a Savior in that Land,
So Don’t you wanna go to that Land
Where I’m bound, where I’m bound.
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