| Author | Topic: Add: Rise up, Shepherd, an' Foller | |
| Jon Freeman | Posted - 29 Aug 03 - 01:26 pm | |
Rise up, Shepherd, an' Foller 1. There's a star in the East on Christmas morn, Rise up, shepherd, an' foller, It'll lead to the place where the Savior's born, Rise up, shepherd, an' foller. REFRAIN Leave your sheep and leave your lambs, Rise upl shepherd, an' foller; Leave your ewes an' leave your rams, Rise up, shepherd, an' foller. Foller, foller, Rise up, shepherd, an' foller; Foller the star of Bethlehem, Rise up, shepherd, an' foller. 2. if you take good heed to the angel's words, Rise up, shepherd, an' foller, You'll forget your flocks, you'll forget your herds, Rise up, shepherd, an' foller. REFRAIN Source: The Second Penguin Book of Christmas Carols, ed. Elizabeth Poston Notes: From The Second Penguin Book of Christmas Carols, p. 23. Rise up, Shepherd, an' Foller. Christmas Plantation Song, printed in Religious Folk Songs of the Negro as sung on the Plantations, edited by Thomas P. Fenner, Virginia, 1909. One of the many Negro spirituals collected during the Civil War, mainly from Negroes of the islands off the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina and published in 1867 as Slave Songs of the United States, compiled by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison in 1867 (reprint: Oak Publications, New York, 1965). Related tunes are found in English and Welsh folk song; a similar tune was sung in the Isle of Man and in Wales as a carol (Journal of Welsh Folksong ii, 182 ff.); and a form of the melody appears in an early American hymn 'He was found worthy' (Songs of Grace, Lorenz and Baltzell). Database entry is here | ||
| masato sakurai | Posted - 29 Aug 03 - 03:40 pm | |
This spiritual can't be found in Allen et al.'s Slave Songs of the United States (1867). I have checked the Oak (which is not a facsimile), Peter Smith, and Dover editions too. The book is not indexed in the entry of "Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow" in The Cleveland Public Library's Index to Negro Spirituals (1991); or Kathleen A. Abromeit's An Index to African-American Spirituals for the Solo Voice (Greenwood, 1999). | ||
| Mary in Kentucky | Posted - 29 Aug 03 - 06:38 pm | |
hmmmmmmm...I wrote verbatim what was in the Poston Book. (Could it be wrong, or are we misinterpreting what was said there?) What about the 1909 book, Religious Folk Songs of the Negro as sung on the Plantations, edited by Thomas P. Fenner? Also, what about the related tunes in English and Welsh folksong? | ||
| masato sakurai | Posted - 30 Aug 03 - 02:17 am | |
I haven't seen the 1909 edition of Religious Folk Songs of the Negro. This song is also in a reprint of the 1920 new edition (AMS Press, 1973, p. 173). Identical (key is Db too) with the Poston version except for spellings: "Dere's a Star in de Eas' on Christmas morn, ...." | ||