{"id":408,"date":"2010-07-12T23:07:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T04:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/?p=408"},"modified":"2018-11-30T13:52:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T19:52:32","slug":"drinkin-that-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/drinkin-that-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinkin’ that Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"

My singing of this song is amalgamated from multiple sources including a version from longshoremen of the Ball Steamship Company in Tampa Florida (AFC 7092 B2 – primary melody, verses 1 and 3), a menhaden fishing version released on the LP Virgina Traditions<\/em>, sung by Walter Kegler and the crew of the Barnegat<\/em>, recorded 8 August 1950 off Crab Island, NJ by an NBC radio crew (verses 1, 4, 5 and 6). My lyrics for verse 2 are taken from Lydia Parrish’s Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands <\/em>p. 250 where the song is called “Communion Hymn” but used for weed cutting. Other versions can be found in Odum & Johnson’s 1926 collection American Negro Songs and Spirituals<\/em> p. 136; and Bruce Jackson’s classic collection of prison songs Wake Up Dead Man<\/em> pp. 245 ff. which has versions used for logging and flatweeding.<\/p>\n

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  1. Oh, if my mother asks for me,
    \nTell her that death done summon me,
    \nYou ought to been there ten thousand years
    \nDrinkin’ that wine.
    \nChorus:<\/em>
    \nDrinkin’ that wine, wine wine
    \nDrinkin’ that wine, oh yes my Lord
    \nYou oughta been there ten thousand years
    \nDrinkin’ that wine.<\/li>\n
  2. Ain\u2019t but one thing that I done wrong,
    \nStayin\u2019 in the wilderness mos\u2019 too long.<\/li>\n
  3. Down by the river, we’re gonna walk
    \nMe and my Lord gonna have a little talk.<\/li>\n
  4. Two white horses side by side,
    \nOne of them horses I’m gonna ride.<\/li>\n
  5. If you get there before I do,
    \nTell my mother I\u2019m coming too.<\/li>\n
  6. If my mother asks for me,
    \nTell her that death done summon me.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    My singing of this song is amalgamated from multiple sources including a version from longshoremen of the Ball Steamship Company in Tampa Florida (AFC 7092 B2 – primary melody, verses 1 and 3), a menhaden fishing version released on the LP Virgina Traditions, sung by Walter Kegler and the crew of the Barnegat, recorded 8…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwalser.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}