Chordify for Android. It was [long] what the good book, bible told. Dig My Grave with a Silver Spade/See That My Grave Is Kept Clean. Maybe a young Lemon Jefferson learnt his "Grave" from part slave-song. I'll need to compare versions to determine the relationship with "Dig My Grave with a Silver Spade (I). See That My Grave Is Kept Clean. "silver spade/golden chain" verses were strongly extant in the. "Hymns and Spiritual Songs", they added their own choruses, verses, stanzas or refrains and increasingly, joined them to the old.
I'm gonna kill myself, think I'm gonna myself. An' mark the spot where he was laid. " One spiritual recorded in 1938 in South Carolina. Another version with the "Dig My Grave With a Silver Spade" title is performed by Fred McDowell in August 1969. Columbia, S. C. | As. Go to the Ballad Search form. This is the kind of mystery novel I truly enjoy and the kind that is all too rare. 3 See That My Grave Is Kept Clean Lightnin' Hopkins 1959. Origins: The Blind Lemon Jefferson version (titled "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean") dates from 1927 and was on Harry Smith's "Anthology Of American Folk Music" and has been reissued on many compilations. Dig my grave with a silver spade lyrics. Additional drum programming: Count. Silver/gold element could have 'Cock Robin' connections too, via another. There by the name of William Brown. 5 See That My Grave Is Kept Clean Dave Van Ronk 1961.
Cowley's informant, referred. Oral transmissions from Gulf. When my heart stopped beatin'. The spade with which you dig your own grave [Chorus:] I have knowledge, I have seen What our master hes decreed From this day, oh, it shall be On Earth. As "Mister Stormalong" & "Captain Stormalong", this shanty can be traced. See But that dont make whats me Im the spade Trumpin all of my brothers lowkey Ive been all around this bitch So i aint got no street Just know if you. OTHER NAMES: "Dig My Grave (With a Silver Spade)" "Dig My Grave". Please wait while the player is loading. Dead an' gone, I'm left in this old world all alone. Over the moor, take me to the moor Dig a shallow grave And I'll lay me down Over the moor, take me to the moor Dig a shallow grave. My heart stopped beating and my hands turned cold 3x. If you ever hear that trumpet sound. Ah are you digging my grave. Oster, Harry / Living Country Blues, Minerva, Sof (1969), p183/# 51 [1959/06/05] (Dig My Grave with a Silver Spade). Well, my heart stopped beatin', Lord, my hands got cold.
Century, these are now, at best, vestigial and obscured. How to use Chordify. Bob Dylan, Columbia KCS 8579, LP (1962), trk# B. For to dig my grave. Ay, ay, ay, Mister Stormalong. "
New England rum, And all my shell-backs, they'de have some. One of Blind Lemon Jefferson's most influential songs, recorded in 1927 (+) and re-issued on LP 3 [Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, track No. Then you know another boy's in the ground. Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin. Hugill has no doubt that 'Stormalong'.
Português do Brasil. Label, and it was for the Library that Texan Pete Harris performed his. Digging has indeed been going on in secret at night. Well, they say those streets are paved with gold (Don't you know those streets). EARLIEST DATE: 1917 (Jolly-Miller-Songster-5thEd).
White horses in a line, (x3). The Ballad Index Copyright 2023 by Robert B. Waltz and David G. Engle. Freed From The Gallows" is a ballad which was known in England and the. Transmission to early British ballad singers. Jolly-Miller-Songster-5thEd, p. 134, "Silver Spade" (1 short text). Stops beatin' an' your hands get cold (x3).
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