Where Are You Then (Where Are You Been)

DESCRIPTION: When the first trumpet sounds loud enough to wake the dead "where are you been?"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (WITrinidadVillage02)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious | trumpet
FOUND IN: West Indies(Trinidad)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Melville J. Herskovits and Frances S. Herskovits, _Trinidad Village_ (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947), pp. 212-213, ("Where are you been") (1 text)
RECORDINGS:
Henry Williams, Henry Thomas, Margaret Wright, Edna Wright, "Where Are You Then (Where Are You Been)" (on WITrinidadVillage02)
NOTES [85 words]: WITrinidadVillage02 was sung as described in the notes to "Jesus Lover of My Soul." The pattern was common to many of the tracks on WITrinidadVillage02; in this case the hymn was not a "Sankey." - BS
The first trumpet (of seven) in the Apocalypse is blown in Rev. 8:7; it brings "hail and fire, mixed with blood." The first mention of the seven trumpets is in Rev. 8:2; and the convoluted story of their blowing, which is repeatedly interrupted as if God had ADHD and can't stay on-topic, takes up chapters 8-11.
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