Adam in the Garden Pinning Leaves

DESCRIPTION: Chorus "Oh Eve, where's Adam? (x3) Adam in the garden pinning leaves." "I know my God is a God of war/He fought the battle at the Jericho wall"; "The first time God called/Adam refused to answer/And the next time God called/God hollered louder."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1934 (field recording, Alberta Bradford & Becky Elsey; cf. Lomax/Lomax-OurSingingCountry)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious gods
FOUND IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES (8 citations):
Parrish-SlaveSongsOfTheGeorgiaSeaIslands, pp. 85-86, ("Oh Eve where is Adam?") (1 text)
Lomax/Lomax-OurSingingCountry, pp. 4-5, "Adam in the Garden Pinnin' Leaves" (1 text, 1 tune)
Cohen/Seeger/Wood-NewLostCityRamblersSongbook, p. 126-127, "Adam in the Garden Pinnin' Leaves" (1 text, 1 tune)
Courlander-NegroFolkMusic, pp. 43-44, (no name) (partial text)
Rosenbaum-ShoutBecauseFree, p. 144-146, "Eve and Adam" (1 text, 1 tune)
Silber/Silber-FolksingersWordbook, p. 24, "Adam In The Garden Pinning Leaves" (1 text)
DT, ADAMGRDN
ADDITIONAL: Harold Courlander, _A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore_, Crown Publishers, 1976, p. 308, "(no title)" (1 text)
Roud #15647
RECORDINGS:
Alberta Bradford & Becky Elsey, "Adam in the Garden Pinnin' Leaves" (AFS 105 B1, 1934)
Minnie Gracie Gadson, "Adam in de Garden" (on USSeaIsland03)
Lawrence McIver and the McIntosh County Shouters, "Adam in the Garden Pinning Leaves" (on McIntoshShouters-RingShoutOnsiteVideo)
McIntosh County Shouters, "Eve and Adam" (on McIntosh1)
New Lost City Ramblers, "Adam in the Garden" (on NLCR10)
Willis Proctor and the Georgia Sea Island Singers, "Adam In the Garden" (on LomaxCD1712)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "John the Revelator" (theme)
cf. "Adam et Eve (Adam and Eve)" (subject)
NOTES [69 words]: The mention of Adam making clothing of fig leaves occurs in the Bible in Gen. 3:7; God comes after Adam in 3:8-9. The siege of Jericho is described in Joshua 6, with a foreshadowing in Joshua 2. - RBW
The Parrish and Rosenbaum-ShoutBecauseFree texts and /McIntoshShouters-RingShoutSongs texts and track, and LomaxCD1712 track are "ring shout" songs. The McIntoshShouters-RingShoutOnsiteVideo video shows the shout. - BS
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