We're So Glad To Be Here

DESCRIPTION: "We're so glad to be here, We're so glad to be here, We could be dead, in our grave, We're so glad to be here"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1972 (USMississippi01)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious
FOUND IN: US(SE)
RECORDINGS:
Fannie Bell Chapman, "We're So Glad To Be Here" (on USMississippi01)
NOTES [67 words]: The description is the text of the Fannie Bell Chapman song. On the recording it is sung before and after a spoken introduction to an audience leading to an evening of spirituals. The repetition of "so glad to be here" and the line "... could be dead ... in the grave" is also on Lee Williams and the Spiritual QC's, "Glad To Be Here" (2005, on "Tell the Angels: Live in Memphis," Malaco MCS 7034). - BS
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