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Creation/Dese Bones Gwine to Rise Again
SEE: "Dese Bones Gwine to Rise Again"
NOTE: This is not the "Creation Song" as found in Cox also known as the "History of The World." See: "Adam And Eve."
Traditional Spiritual
ARTIST: Spiritual from Brown Collection of NC Folklore
SHEET MUSIC:
YOUTUBE:
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel
DATE: 1800s; 1880 George Scott
RECORDING INFO: Creation
Brown Collection of NC Folklore
N. I. White, 1928, "American Negro Folk-Songs."
The Online 78 rpm Discography Project lists these recordings:
Lonesome Pine Twins (McCravy), DE'S BONES GWINE RISE AGAIN, Supertone for Sears 2020, Jan 1928.
Jubilee Gospel Team, THESE BONES GONNA RISE AGAIN, QRS 7013, recorded Sept 1928.
Southern Plantation Singers, DE'S BONES GWINE RISE AGAIN, Vocalion 1219, recorded Sept 26, 1928.
Ranking Bros, THESE BONES GONNA RISE AGAIN, Conqueror 7276, recorded Apr 10, 1929.
Frank & James McCravy, DESE BONES GWINE RISE AGAIN, Banner 32243, Sept 1930.
David & Howard, MY BONES GONNA RISE AGAIN, Victor 23577, recorded May 19, 1931.
Arthur Cornwall & John Gibson, MY BONES IS GONNA RISE AGAIN, Champion 16379, recorded Dec 7, 1931.
Hartman's Tennessee Ramblers, DESE BONES GONNA RISE AGAIN, Bluebird 6089, recorded Aug 04, 1935.
Swan Silvertone Singers, THESE BONES GWINE RISE AGAIN, Queen 4137, recorded July 1946.
Spencers Minstrels, DESE BONES SHALL RISE AGAIN, Leeds & Catlin 4075, date unknown.
Silver Echo Quartet, THEM BONES SHALL RISE AGAIN, Arco 1201, date unknown.
OTHER NAMES: "Dese Bones Gwine to Rise Again"
"These Bones Going to Rise Again"
RELATED TO: "'Dese Bones Gwine to Rise Again;"
SOURCES: Brown Collection of NC Folklore No. 523
N. I. White, 1928, "American Negro Folk-Songs."
NOTES: "Creation," a traditional spiritual found in Brown Collection of NC Folklore No. 523, and is a version "These Bones Going to Rise Again" which was published in 1880 under the title "Dese Bones Shall Rise Again." The song is found in Perrow 1909 as "Dese Bones Gwine to Rise Again." White makes two references dating back to the 1880s.
Mentioned in Brown's notes to this song is the "Creation Song" as found in Cox also known as the "History of The World." This is a completely different song, see "Adam And Eve" in this collection.
CREATION- Brown Collection of NC Folklore No. 523
In ANFS 83-5, White, who prints several versions, states that this appears in several printed collections of Negro songs (which he cites), that it is often sung by whites as a picnic song, and that the refrain is apparently based on Ezekiel 217- Cf. Sandburg
ASB 470-1.
A. No title. With music. From an anonymous MS, without date and address.
The Lord He thought he'd make a man,
A little bit of dirt, a little bit of sand.
These old bones gwine-a rise again.
Chorus: I know it, indeed, I know it,
These old bones gwine-a rise again.
B. 'Dese Bones Gwine to Rise Again.' Text given in June 1948 to A. P. Hudson by Miss Marjorie Craig. Brevard, Transylvania county, with note: "Version by Gene Carter, Mrs. Lucille Reid's cook in Wentworth, N. C. Recorded by Miss Nancy Withers." Wentworth is in Rockingham county.
1. De Lord thought he'd make him a garden so fair,
Dese bones a-gwine to rise again.
Thought he'd put him a man in there.
Dese bones a-gwine to rise again.
2. Took a little sand, took a little clay.
Dese bones, etc.
Out of these Uncle Adam he made.
Dese bones, etc.
3. Thought he'd make him a woman to squeeze.
Dese bones, etc.
Snatched out a rib and he made Miss Eve.
Dese bones, etc.
4 In that garden was an apple tree.
Dese bones, etc.
De Lord tole 'em to let 'em apples be.
Dese bones, etc.
5. Up come Satan with a skip and a jump.
Dese bones, etc.
At Miss Eve one eye he wink.
Dese bones, etc.
6. Eve took a look, then she took a pull.
Dese bones, etc.
Den she filled her apron full.
Dese bones, etc.
7. De Lord called out in a mighty voice.
Dese bones, etc.
Shook dem heavens from joist to joist.
Dese bones, etc.
8. Turned 'em out and give "em a plow.
Dese bones, etc.
9. That's the reason we're ploughing right now.
Dese bones, etc.
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