Video & Lyrics For Two Versions Of The African American Gospel Song "(Got On My) Travelin[g] Shoes"

Edited by Azizi Powell

This is Part II of a two part pancocojams series on the African American Gospel song "(Got On My) Traveling Shoes".

Part II presents two videos of the Gospel song "(Got On My) Traveling Shoes" along with the lyrics to those renditions. These versions are given in addition to the examples that are featured in Part I of this pancocojams series.

Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2019/08/five-youtube-examples-of-african.html for Part I of this series. Part I showcases five YouTube examples of the song "(Got On My) Traveling Shoes" beginning with the earliest recording of that song in 1939.

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Thanks to the unknown composers of the Gospel song "(Got On My) Travelin[g] Shoes". Thanks to those who are featured in these videos and thanks to the arrangers of this song who are quoted in this post.

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PANCOCOJAMS EDITOR'S NOTE
I decided to research the lyrics for the African American Gospel "Travelin Shoes" after I came across a video of the Clara Ward Singers performing this song (given as Example #3 in Part I of this series.) Although some of the online lyrics were somewhat similar, none of those lyrics were exact or near exact transcriptions for the sound files or videos that I happened upon (some of which were later showcased on Part I of this series.

These lyrics are given in no particular order.

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LYRICS FOR TWO VERSIONS OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN GOSPEL SONG "(GOT ON MY) TRAVELIN[G] SHOES"
Example #1: MOTHER FOX SINGING TRAVELING SHOES LORD



Greater Anointing, Published on Mar 30, 2010

FROM CHURCH OF GOD DELIVERANCE
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Lyrics "(Got On My) Travelin[g] Shoes"
(As Lead by Mother Fox, Church Of God Deliverance)

Lead: got my travelin shoes
Group: got on my travelin shoes
Got my travelin shoes
got on my travelin shoes
Got my travelin shoes
got on my travelin shoes

Lead: Lord, they fit me well
group – got on my travelin shoes
Lead – Lord they fit me well
Group – got on my travelin shoes

Lead – Lord they fit me well
Group =on my travelin shoes

Travelin shoes, Lord ( or y’all [?])
Got on my travelin shoes
Travelin shoes y’all
Got on my travelin shoes

Holy shoes, y’all
Got on my travelin shoes
Holy shoes, y’all
Got on my travelin shoes

Feel like running on
Got on my travelin shoes

Feel like travelin now
got on my travelin shoes
[3 xs]

Feel like running on
Got on my travelin shoes
Feel like runnin on
Got on my travelin shoes
Feel like runnin on

Travelin shoes, y’all
travelin shoes y’all
Travelin shoes y’all
Holy shoes y’all

[Additional verses sung in the call & response pattern given above
Lord (Well?) they fit me well

Well they fit me well

Feel like runnin on
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*This is my transcription of this rendition from the video. Additions and corrections are welcome.
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Example #2: "Travelin Shoes Spoof"- Mondo & Dwayne (Rowoches)



Rowoches, Published on Jun 23, 2009

:My cousin and I are fans of many different Golden Age Gospel singers/groups. Here we decided to do the Ward Singers' version of "Travelin' Shoes." Just cutting up and acting a fool, but still giving God the Praise in the midst of the fun!
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[Pancocojams Editor's Note: The title for discussion thread quotes the title for the YouTube video. The definition of "spoof" is "to imitate (something) while exaggerating its characteristic features for comic effect."). Notice Rowoches' (Dwayne's) comment about this "spoof".

One example of the Clara Ward Singers' renditions of "Travelin Shoes" is given as Example #2 in Part I of this pancocojams series.

Lyrics from http://www.learngospelmusic.com/forums/index.php?topic=67894.0 Traveling Shoes spoof

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Rowoches, July 17, 2009, 12:10:37 PM »
"I usually don't deal with lyrics, but here are the lyrics to the song.

Travelin' shoes
(Got on my travelin shoes)
Travelin' shoes
(Got on my travelin shoes)
Travelin' shoes, Lord
(Got on my travelin shoes)
Travelin' shoes, Lord
(Got on my travelin shoes)

verse 1:

Death came riding by, by my Mother's door
He said, "Come on Mother, are you ready to go?"
Mother stooped down, began to buckle up her shoes
And she counted up her cost, she had no time to lose
Then she moved on down by the Jordan stream
And she shouted, "Hallelujah, Lord, I been redeemed"
She cried, "Lord, I done my duty!"
"Got on my travelin' shoes"

verse 2:

Death came riding by, by the sinner's door
He said, "Come on Sinner, are you ready to go?"
Sinner stooped down, he didn't have no shoes
He hadn't counted up his cost, so he could not refuse
So, he moved on down by the Jordan stream
And the water came up to the sinner's knee
Then the water came up to the sinner's thigh
He said, "Oh, my Lord, I ain't ready to die."
Then the water moved up to the sinner's neck
He said, "Oh, my Lord, please don't take me yet"
Then the water came up to the sinner's chin
And along came death and just pushed him in
He cried, "Lord, ain't done my duty"
"Ain't got no travelin shoes"

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This concludes Part II of this two part pancocojams series on the Gospel song "Travelin Shoes".

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