Seeing Dem Lordy (Stain Dem Bloody)

DESCRIPTION: Chorus: "Seeing them Lord and you seeing them dance about, seeing them." People are travelling up and down the road: to Galilee, to Zion, all over Canaan.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (WITrinidadVillage02)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious travel
FOUND IN: West Indies(Trinidad)
RECORDINGS:
Ebenezer Phil, "Seeing Dem Lordy (Stain Dem Bloody)" (on WITrinidadVillage02)
NOTES [80 words]: This is a Spiritual Baptist hymn. That raises a question whenever travelling is featured: is this just incidental travelling to holy sites or is this a reference to, in Zane's words, "Journeys to the Spiritual Lands"? Each member of the community is a shaman-pilgrim to "spiritual lands," and reports to the congregation, "on my pilgrim journey, I found myself ...." (Wallace W. Zane, Journeys to the Spiritual Lands (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 18-22, 121-125.) - BS
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