Good-Bye Everybody

DESCRIPTION: "Good-bye everybody, Good-bye, sing Hallelujah." The singer is leaving. Jesus is at the Sacrement Table, "handing bread and wine to the members." Good-bye "all you deacons (preachers, false pretenders)"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1942 (Parrish-SlaveSongsOfTheGeorgiaSeaIslands)
KEYWORDS: farewell nonballad religious Jesus
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Parrish-SlaveSongsOfTheGeorgiaSeaIslands 15, pp. 90-92, "Good-Bye Everybody" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Joe Armstrong and the Georgia Sea Island Singers, "Goodbye, Everybody" (on LomaxCD1712, recorded 1959)
NOTES [39 words]: The current description is based on the Parrish-SlaveSongsOfTheGeorgiaSeaIslands text. Parrish says this was a favorite St. Simons farewell song at the end of an evening service.
Parrish includes this among her "ring shout" songs. - BS
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