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Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
Traditional Spiritual;
ARTIST: from Jubilee Singers; J. B. T. Marsh, The Story of the Jubilee Singers with Their Songs. 1880s, Houghton Mifflin. Songs appear in several editions, USA and UK, 1870s-1880s.
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CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;
DATE: circa 1874;
RECORDING INFO: Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel/Danuwel
Solomon, Jack & Olivia (eds.) / Sweet Bunch of Daisies, Colonial Press, Bk (1991), p172 [1938]
Lift Every Voice. The Second People's Song Book, Sing Out, Fol (1953), p47
Fisk Jubilee Singers. Marsh, J. B. T. / Story of the Jubilee Singers, Houghton Mifflin, Bk (1880), p134/# 10
Hayes, Roland. My Songs, Vanguard VRS- 494, LP (1956), trk# B.05
Robeson, Paul. Paul Robeson, American Balladeer, Everest 3417, LP (1977), trk# A.02
Robeson, Paul. Encore, Robeson!, Monitor MP 581, LP (196?), trk# B.03
Robeson, Paul. Essential Paul Robeson, Vanguard VSD 57/58, LP (1974/1958), trk# B.04
Settle, Mike. Mike Settle Shindig, Reprise 6149, LP (1965), trk# B.06 Didn't the Lord Deliver
BALLAD INDEX: Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
DESCRIPTION: "Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel... Then why not every man? He delivered Daniel from the lion's den, Jonah from the belly of the whale." The singer forecasts the end of the world, expecting to be saved, and rejoices in salvation
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1973
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Silber-FSWB, p. 370, "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?" (1 text)
DT, DELVRDAN*
Roud #12348
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Preacher and the Bear" (theme)
Notes: The story of Daniel in the lion's den (for refusing to worship a false god) is in Daniel 6:16-24. Jonah's sojourn in the belly of a fish (NOT a whale; the Hebrew says "fish") is in Jonah 1:17-2:10. The story of the three in the fiery furnace is in Daniel 3. - RBW
OTHER NAMES: "Didn' Ol John Cross The Water On His Knees?"
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SOURCES: Folk index; J. B. T. Marsh, The Story of the Jubilee Singers with Their Songs. 1880s, Houghton Mifflin. Songs appear in several editions, USA and UK, 1870s-1880s.
NOTES: "Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel" is a traditional spiritual from the Fisk Jubilee Singers appearing in J. B. T. Marsh, The Story of the Jubilee Singers with Their Songs crirca 1880. The chorus was rewritten by Joe Arzonia in 1904 to create the hit song, "The Preacher and the Bear."
THE PREACHER AND THE BEAR (Joe Arzonia, 1904)
CHORUS: Oh Lord, didn't you deliver Daniel from the lion's den?
Also deliver Jonah from the belly of the whale and then,
Three Hebrew children from the fiery furnace, so the good books do declare.
Now, Lord, if you can't help me, for goodness sake don't you help that bear.
29. My Lord Delivered Daniel- Old Plantation Days- Col. W. Mallory b. 1826; published in 1902
CHORUS: My Lord delivered Daniel, my Lord delivered Daniel,
My Lord delivered Daniel, why can't He deliver me.--Repeat.
Some say that John the Baptist
Was nothing but a Jew,
But the Bible doth inform us
That he was a preacher too.
Yes, he was!
CHO.--My Lord delivered Daniel, etc.
Oh, Daniel cast in the lions' den
He prayed both night and day,
The angel came from Galilee
And locked the lion's jaws.
That's so!
CHO.--My Lord delivered Daniel, etc
No. 10. Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel- All with musical scores. J. B. T. Marsh, The Story of the Jubilee Singers with Their Songs. 1880s, Houghton Mifflin. Songs appear in several editions, USA and UK, 1870s-1880s.
Chorus: (Sung in Unison) Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel,
D'liver Daniel, d'liver Daniel,
Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel,
And why not every man?
1. He deliver'd Daniel from the lion's den,
Jonah from the belly of the whale,
And the Hebrew children from the fiery furnace,
And why not every man?
*Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel,
D'liver Daniel, d'liver Daniel,
Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel,
And why not every man?
2. The moon run down in a purple stream,
The sun forbear to shine,
And every star disappear,
King Jesus shall be mine.
Didn't etc.
3. The wind blows East, and the wind blows West,
It blows like the judgement day,
And every poor soul that never did pray
'll be glad to pray that day.
Didn't etc.
4. I set my foot on the Gospel ship,
And the ship it begin to sail,
It landed me over on Canaan's shore,
And I'll never come back any more.
Didn't etc.
*Go on without pause, leaving out two beats of the measure.
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