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Don't You Weep After Me/Don't You Grieve After Me/ Don't Grieve After Me/
See Also: Don' You Grieve After Me/ Don't Grieve After Me
Traditional Spiritual and Old-time Bluegrass Gospel
ARTIST: From Bahama Songs and Stories: Volume 3 By Charles Lincoln Edwards
Phipps- YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtaNhPqpZGc
SHEET MUSIC:http://books.google.com/books?id=3cw-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA110&dq=Bahama+songs+and+stories:+A+contribution+to+folk-lore,+Volume&lr=&as_brr=3&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel
DATE: 1878; Recorded 1925 Carson Brothers- Smith
RECORDING INFO: Don't Grieve After Me [Me III-C 28]
Rt - Don't You Weep After Me
Fisk Jubilee Singers. Marsh, J. B. T. / Story of the Jubilee Singers, Houghton Mifflin, Bk (1880), p216/# 95 (Don't You Grieve After Me)
Phipps, Ernest; and his Holiness Quartet. Mountain Sacred Songs, County 508, LP (196?), trk# A.04 [1927/07/26]
RECORDING INFO: Don't You Weep After Me
Rt - Don't Grieve After Me
At - Don't Weep After Me
Sing Out Reprints, Sing Out, Sof (1959), 5, p43
Blood, Peter; and Annie Patterson (eds.) / Rise Up Singing, Sing Out, Sof (1992/1989), p208
Silverman, Jerry / Folk Guitar - Folk Song, Scarborough Book, Sof (1983/1977), p123
Leisy, James F. (ed.) / Folk Song Abecedary, Bonanza, Bk (1966), p 82
Baez, Joan;, Bill Wood and Ted Alevizos. Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square, Veritas, LP (1959), trk# B.09
Mitchell Trio. Mighty Day on Campus, Kapp KS 3262, LP (1961), trk# B.06 (On My Journey)
New Wine Singers. New Wine Singers at the Chicago Opera House, Vee-Jay VJ 1071, LP (1963), trk# B.02b (When I'm On My Journey)
Robeson, Paul. Carnegie Hall Concert, Vol. 2, Vanguard VSD 79193, LP (1965/1958), trk# A.03 (On My Journey)
Weavers. Gilbert, Ronnie, et.al (ed.) / Weavers' Song Book, Harper & Row, Sof (1960), p172 (On My Journey)
Weavers. Weavers at Carnegie Hall, Vol. 2, Vanguard VRS-9075, LP (1964/1960), trk# A.01 (On My Journey)
Ballad Index: Don't You Grieve After Me (I)
DESCRIPTION: The singer describes various adventures: Being found by the police with a wallet not his own, sleeping in a hotel and being declared a deadbeat. Chorus: When I'm gone, Don't you, don't you grieve (x3), An' I told him not to grieve after me."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1915
KEYWORDS: rambling crime travel floatingverses
FOUND IN: US(So)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Randolph 257, "Don't You Grieve After Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 220-222, "Don't You Grieve After Me" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 257)
BrownIII 556, "Bye and Bye" (1 fragment, possibly not this but too short to classify as anything else)
Roud #6698
RECORDINGS:
Loman D. Cansler, "I Told 'em Not to Grieve After Me" (on Cansler1)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Don't You Weep After Me" (floating lyrics)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
I Told Him Not to Grieve After Me
Notes: Alan Lomax claims -- on the basis of a few words in the chorus -- that this is the same as "When I'm Gone." I don't buy it. - RBW
Ballad Index: Don't You Weep After Me
DESCRIPTION: "When I'm dead and buried don't you weep after me (x3).... I don't want you to weep after me." Unrelated verses about death: "On the good ship of Zion"; "King Peter is my Captain"; "Bright angels are the sailors"; "When I do cross over"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1922 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: death nonballad Bible funeral
FOUND IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Randolph 262, "Jacob's Ladder" (1 text, 1 tune -- a fragment so short that it can only tentatively be classified with this piece; see also "Jacob's Ladder")
BrownIII 527, "Don't You Grieve After Me" (2 texts plus a fragment)
Scarborough-NegroFS, p. 9, (no title) (1 fragment)
Silber-FSWB, p. 350, "Don't You Weep After Me" (1 text)
ST R262 (Full)
Roud #2286
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "Don't You Weep after Me" (on PeteSeeger26)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Jacob's Ladder" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Don't You Grieve After Me (I)" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Oh, They Put John on the Island" (floating lyrics)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
On My Journey
Don't You Grieve After Me
When I'm Dead and Buried
Notes: Both the Randolph fragment and Brown's "A" text and "B" fragment are linked to "Jacob's Ladder." It is not clear whether this link is original or coincidental. - RBW
OTHER NAMES: "Don't Grieve After Me" "On My Journey"
RELATED TO: "Don't You Weep After Me" "Jacob's Ladder"
SOURCES: Meade; Folk Index; Ballad Index
NOTES: "Don't You Weep After Me" or similarly "Don't You Grieve After Me" is a traditional spiritual and old-time/bluegrass gospel song. This version is from Bahama Songs and Stories: Volume 3 By Charles Lincoln Edwards 1895.
There are many related songs, titles and versions. Meade lists three early country
recordings under the title "Don't You Grieve After Me":
Carson Brothers- Smith 1925
Ernest Phipps Holiness Quartet 1927
George Stevens 1930.
Several versions of the spiritual date back to the 1800s:
No. 95. Don't You Grieve After Me (excerpt) The Fisk Jubilee Singers circa 1880
1. Oh, who is that a coming? Don't you grieve after me,
Oh, who is that a coming? Don't you grieve after me,
Oh, who is that a coming? Don't you grieve after me,
Lord, I don't want you to grieve after me.
DONT YOU GRIEVE OVER ME- The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 42 by Philip Gengembre Hubert 1878
These real " negro minstrels " are as fond of refrains as any poet of the modern mediaeval school, and even more ingenious in their misapplication. For instance, how would it be possible to show a loftier indifference to the logical connection of ideas than is found in that first poem of collection No. 1: —
"A mighty war in heaven,
Don't you grieve after me;
A mighty war in heaven,
Don't you grieve after me;
I don't want you to grieve after me."
"St. Michael and the dragon,
Don't you grieve after me;
St. Michael and the dragon,
Don't you grieve after me;
I don't want you to grieve after me."
"He put him in a dungeon,
Don't you grieve after me;
lie put him in a dungeon,
Don't you grieve after me;
I don't want you to grieve after me."
Don't You Weep After Me- Charles Lincoln Edwards 1895
Edwards commects, "(There seems to be no end to the verses of this song."
When urn dead an' buried,
Don't you weep after me;
When um dead an' buried,
Don't you weep after me;
When um dead an' buried,
Don't you weep after me,
For I don' want you to weep ter me.
When um dead an' buried,
Don't you weep after me;
When um dead an" buried,
Don't you weep after me ;
When um dead an' buried,
Don't you weep after me,
For I don' want you to weep after me.
Sailin' on the ocean,
Don't you weep after me;
Sailin' on the ocean,
Don't you weep after me;
Sailin' on the ocean,
Don't you weep after me,
For I don' want you to weep after me.
In the old ship of Zion,
Don't you weep after me-;
In the old ship of Zion,
Don't you weep after me ;
In the old ship of Zion,
Don't you weep after me,
For I don' want you to weep after me.
Kin' Peter is the capt'in,
Don't you weep after me;
Kin' Peter is the capt'in,
Don't you weep after me;
Kin' Peter is the capt'in,
Don't you weep after me,
For I don' want you to weep after me.
Bright angels is the sailors,
Don't you weep after me;
Bright angels is the sailors,
Don't you weep after me;
Bright angels is the sailors,
Don't you weep after me,
For I don' want you to weep after me.
You poor distressed sinners,
Don't you weep after me;
You poor distressed sinners,
Don't you weep after me;
You poor distressed sinners,
Don't you weep after me,
For I don' want you to weep after me.
Oh, look-a' Mary,
Don't you weep after me;
Oh, look-a' Mary,
Don't you weep after me;
Oh, look-a' Mary,
Don't you weep after me,
For I don' want you to weep after me.
She's lookin' over Jordun,
Don't you weep after me;
She's lookin' over Jordun,
Don't you weep after me;
She's lookin' over Jordun,
Don't you weep after me,
For I don' want you to weep after me.
Oh, look-a' Martha,
Don't you weep after me;
Oh, look-a' Martha,
Don't you weep after me;
Oh, look-a' Martha,
Don't you weep after me,
For I don' want you to weep after me.
Oh, run along my friends,
Don't you weep after me;
Oh, run along my friends,
Don't you weep after me;
Oh, run along my friends,
Don't you weep after me,
For I don' want you to weep after me.
Tell my Lawd I'm coming,
Don't you weep after me;
Tell my Lawd I'm coming,
Don't you weep after me;
Tell my Lawd I'm coming,
Don't you weep after me,
For I don' want you to weep after me.
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