CHORUS
There ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down
There ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down
When I hear the trumpet sound
Gonna get up outa the ground
There ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down
Well go down yonder Gabriel
Put your foot on the land and sea
But don’t you blow that trumpet
until you hear from me [Chorus]
Well look way over yonder
See people dressed in white
I know it was God’s people
I seen ’em doin right [Chorus]
Oh look way over Jordan
What do you think I see
I see a band of angels
and they’re comin’ after me [Chorus]
Well I goin to the river of Jordan
Bury my knees in the sand
Gonna holler high Hosanna
til I reach that promised land [Chorus]
Well meet me Jesus meet me
Meet me in the middle of the air
And if these wings should fail me
there won’t be no other pair [Chorus]
Twang is an all girl string band from Mountain View, Arkansas. Note the quintessential instruments that define Bluegrass music - mandolin, fiddle, guitar, banjo, and upright bass. (As with jazz performance, there are usually segments of bluegrass songs that feature each single instrument.)
There is another version of this song with wholly different lyrics on the verses. I would classify this performance as "praise" style.
Shame is a prison
Cruel as the grave
Shame is a robber
And he's come to take my name
Love is my redeemer
Lifting me up from the ground
Love is the power
Where my freedom song is found
CHORUS
Fear is a liar
With a smooth and velvet tongue
Fear is a tyrant
Always telling me to run
Love is a resurrection
Love is a trumpet sound
Love is my weapon
Gonna take my giants down
CHORUS
Oh there was a battle
A war between death and life
And there on a tree
The lamb of god was crucified
He went down to grave
And took back every key
He rose up as a lion
And he set all captives free
PRAISE INTERLUDE --
HE'S ALIVE ALIVE
ALIVE HALLELUJAH
ALIVE FOREVER AMEN
PRAISE AND GLORY TO THE LAMB
WORTH IS THE LAMB
WORTHY OF OUR PRAISE
WORTHY IS THE ONE WHO HAS OVERCOME THE GRAVE
LET THE PEOPLE DANCE
LET THE PEOPLE SING
WORTHY IS THE MIGHTY KING
If you walked out of the grave
I'm walking too
CHORUS
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Here is some interesting information about the history of the song and the composer Claude Ely -
Claude Ely, a songwriter and preacher from Virginia, describes composing the song while sick with tuberculosis in 1934 when he was twelve years old. His family prayed for his health, and in response he spontaneously performed this song. An African-American gospel song, "C'aint no grave," has been traced back to a 1933 Church of God in Christ hymnal by blogger Debi Simons.
That version was recorded by Bozie Sturdivant in July 1942 (and released in 1943 as "Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down") in a slower, gospel style
and in 1946-7 by Sister Rosetta Tharpe with barrelhouse piano, Tharpe having grown up in COGIC.
The song in Ely's version was recorded (and copyrighted) in 1953, even though he wrote it as early as 1935.
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