tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post6103829055592802756..comments2024-03-28T07:58:41.643-04:00Comments on pancocojams: Rev Timothy Flemming - "Anyhow" (Lyrics & Comments)Azizi Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-42099381352651894132017-03-12T18:50:25.023-04:002017-03-12T18:50:25.023-04:00I Love this, make me look back to this song way w...I Love this, make me look back to this song way we sang it in church..... Down at the cross, we all got to bow. Reason I'm working trying to get to Heaven , Anyhow...... Anyhow. We got to tell Jesus all about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-50837913544740802642013-10-30T17:27:35.606-04:002013-10-30T17:27:35.606-04:00"Anyhow" ("Anyhow My Lord") is..."Anyhow" ("Anyhow My Lord") is an open ended song, meaning there's no fixed length for this song. Other verses can be added to those verses or substituted for those verses by changing the noun [friend, wife, husband, neighbor etc]. There is no fixed order to the verses. <br /><br />Some folklorists call this type of song a "zipper song" because nouns [in this case] or verbs [in the case of other songs] can be used to make up verses of this song. "I Got A Robe" is an example of a Spiritual in which the verbs are changed to make verses.<br /><br /><br />Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-42309206403170107882013-10-30T17:26:38.198-04:002013-10-30T17:26:38.198-04:00The lyrics to this song [with the title "I’m ...The lyrics to this song [with the title "I’m Gwine Up To Heab'n Anyhow" are found on the website negrospirituals.com.<br /><br />I didn't post those lyrics because I'm concerned that by doing so some people would think that Spiritual is sung that way nowadays. However, it's my sense that African Americans rarely use 19th dialectic words when they sing what I used to be called "Negro Spirituals" and what I now call "African American Spirituals". I definitely don't remember EVER saying or singing "gwine" in Spirituals or otherwise.<br /><br />Instead of "gwine", we sing "goin'". Instead of "heab’n", we sing "Heav'n", and instead of "yo'" we sing "your".<br /><br />My sense is that words and grammatical forms that aren't used nowadays in African American English are also not sung anymore when African American choirs sing these songs. <br /><br />For example, in the song "Ain't That Good News", the words "ain't" and "got" [as in "I got ah robe up in-a that kingdom" are still used. The word "ain't" is retained, and not changed to "isn't". And the word "got" is retained, and not changed to "have". <br />Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.com