Judgment Day Is Comin'

DESCRIPTION: "Judgment day is comin', Time is drawin' near. Don't you hear God callin' you?" God calls with thunder and lightning. The singer is on his way to heaven.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1942 (Parrish-SlaveSongsOfTheGeorgiaSeaIslands)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Brown/Belden/Hudson-FrankCBrownCollectionNCFolklore3 606, "Judgment Day Is Comin', "" (1 text)
Parrish-SlaveSongsOfTheGeorgiaSeaIslands 44, pp. 185-187, "Aye Lord, Time Is Drawin' Nigh"; p. 188, ("Loose horse in the valley") (2 texts, 1 tune)
Rosenbaum-ShoutBecauseFree, p. 137-139, "Time Drawin' Nigh (I See the Sign)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #11916
RECORDINGS:
Lawrence McIver and the McIntosh County Shouters, "I See the Sign (Time Drawin' Nigh)" (on McIntoshShouters-RingShoutOnsiteVideo)
Henry Morrison, Bessie Jones and the Georgia Sea Island Singers, "Sign of Judgment" (on LomaxCD1712, recorded 1959)
Freddie Palmer and The McIntosh County Shouters, "I See the Sign" (on McIntoshShouters-RingShoutPresentation)
Nathan Palmer and the McIntosh County Shouters, "Time Drawin' Nigh" (on McIntosh1)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Judgment Day is Rolling Around" (theme)
NOTES [39 words]: The Rosenbaum-ShoutBecauseFree/McIntoshShouters-RingShoutSongs text and track and LomaxCD1712 tracks are "ring shout" songs. The McIntoshShouters-RingShoutPresentation and McIntoshShouters-RingShoutOnsiteVideo videos show the shout.- BS
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