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Blow Your Trumpet Gabriel
Tradtional Old-Time, Spiritual;
ARTIST: from Charles Pickard Ware, William Francis Allen, Lucy McKim Garrison "Slave Songs of the United States," 1867, no. 4, p. 3.
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Bluegrass Gospel;
DATE: 1867; Negro Spirituals by Thomas Wentworth Higginson from the Atlantic Monthly, June 1867
RECORDING INFO: Brother, Guide Me Home
Allen, William Francis, et.al (eds.) / Slave Songs of the United States, Dover, Sof (1995/1867), #107 [1860s]
OTHER NAMES: “Brother, Guide Me Home,”
SOURCES: from William Francis Allen, et.al (eds.) 1867 book, Slave Songs of the United States.
NOTES: “Brother, Guide Me Home” is found in William Francis Allen, et.al (eds.) 1867 book, Slave Songs of the United States.
[I heard this in a praise-house at the “Contraband Camp” on President’s Island
near Memphis, in September, 1864. I will not vouch for the absolute accuracy of my
memory—William Francis Allen]
BROTHER GUIDE ME HOME- Spiritual 1864
1. Brudder, guide me home an' I am glad,
Bright angels biddy me to come
Brudder, guide me home an' I am glad,
Bright angels biddy me to come.
Brudder, guide me home an' I am glad,
Bright angels biddy me to come
Brudder, guide me home an' I am glad,
Bright angels biddy me to come.
What a happy time chil'n
What a happy time chil'n
What a happy time chil'n
Bright angels biddy me to come.
What a happy time chil'n
What a happy time chil'n
What a happy time chil'n
Bright angels biddy me to come.
2. Let’s go to God, chil’n,
Bright angels biddy me to come.
Let’s go to God, chil’n,
Bright angels biddy me to come. (etc.)
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