Daniel Saw the Stone

DESCRIPTION: "Daniel saw the stone, hewn out of the mountain (x3), Tearing down the kingdom of this world." Verses: Daniel prays in the lion's den -- despite wicked men; he prays three times a day to defeat the devil. "Have you seen that stone?" "Jesus was the stone."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1909 (Dett/Fenner/Rathbun/Cleveland-ReligiousFolkSongsOfTheNegro-HamptonInstitute)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad Jesus Bible
FOUND IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Dett/Fenner/Rathbun/Cleveland-ReligiousFolkSongsOfTheNegro-HamptonInstitute, p. 54, "Daniel Saw the Stone" (1 text, 1 tune; p. 157 in the 1909 edition)
Rosenbaum-ShoutBecauseFree, pp. 153-154, "Ezekiel Saw That Little Stone" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson, The Books of American Negro Spirituals (New York: Viking Press, 1969 (copyright 1925, 1926)), Book 2, pp. 162-163, "Daniel Saw de Stone" (1 text) (1 tune)
Harold Courlander, _A Treasury of Afro-American Folklore_, Crown Publishers, 1976, pp. 322-323, "(no title)" (1 text plus an excerpt)
Roud #12210
RECORDINGS:
Brenton Jordan and The McIntosh County Shouters, "Daniel Saw That Little Stone" (on McIntoshShouters-SpiritualsShouts)
NOTES [87 words]: In Dett/Fenner/Rathbun/Cleveland-ReligiousFolkSongsOfTheNegro-HamptonInstitute's verses, every alternate line is "Cut out the mountain without hands."
The Rosenbaum-ShoutBecauseFree text and McIntoshShouters-SpiritualsShouts track are "ring shout" songs.
Daniel interprets Nebuchadnezzar's dream that includes "a stone cut out without hands ... and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain" in Daniel 2:29-35 (King James). Daniel in the lion's den is Daniel 6; his praying three times a day is Daniel 6:10. - BS
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File: CrAAF322

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