Lift Him Up That's All

DESCRIPTION: Jesus meets a woman at Jacob's well; she wonders at his being a Jew, but when she sees it is Jesus she runs to town: "Come and see a man who told me all that I have done." He asks her for water; she tries to hide her sins, speaking of "race pride."
AUTHOR: Washington Phillips (c. 1891-1938)
EARLIEST DATE: 1927 (recording, Washington Phillips)
LONG DESCRIPTION: Jesus meets a woman at Jacob's well; she wonders at his being a Jew, but when she sees it is Jesus she runs into town saying, "Come and see a man who told me all that I have done." He asks her for some water, and she tries to hide her sins, speaking of "race pride." Ch.: "Lift him up, that's all/Lift him up in his word/If you tell the name of Jesus everywhere...He will draw men unto him."
KEYWORDS: Bible religious Jesus Jew
FOUND IN: US(SW)
RECORDINGS:
Washington Phillips, "Lift Him Up That's All" (Columbia 14277-D, 1927; on Babylon)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Maid and the Palmer" [Child 21] (subject)
cf. "Jesus Met the Woman at the Well" (subject)
cf. "See the Woman at the Well" (subject)
NOTES [89 words]: For the story of Jesus and the Woman of Samaria, see John 4:5-26.
Washington Phillips is probably worth looking up just for his instrumentation. According to W. K. McNeil, editor, Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music, Routledge, 2005, p. 296, he played the dulceola, a zither with a keyboard that was manufactured for only a few years between 1900 and 1910; apparently only about a hundred were ever made. (There is a YouTube video of Andy Cohen playing one. A fascinatingly odd instrument that I'm glad I don't have to tune.) - RBW
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