I
Am The True Vine
(Reverend
Gary Davis)
I
am the true vine
I am the true vine
I am the true vine
My father is a husbandman
I am
I am the true vine
I am
My father is a husbandman
One of these
mornings, won't be long
My father
is
You're gonna call me and I'll be gone
My father is a husbandman
One of these days 'bout twelve o'clock
My father is a husbandman
This old world is gonna reel and rock
My father is a husbandman
Gotta rest still and study yourself
My father is a husbandman
God's gonna move this ark himself
My father is a husbandman
One of these mornings bright and fair
My father is a husbandman
Gonna hitch on my wings and try the air
My father is a husbandman
I plan to tell you what a hypocrite will do
My father is a husbandman
He'll talk about me and talk about you
My father is a husbandman
I am the true
vine
I am the true vine
I am the true vine
My father is a husbandman
I am
I am
Oh!
My father is
Well I want
to go to heaven and I want to go right
My father is a husbandman
Want to go to heaven all dressed in white
My father is
Heaven so high and I'm so low
My father is
Don't know whether I'll get to heaven but I know
My father is a husbandman
Sometimes I'm up, sometimes I'm down
My father is
Sometimes I'm almost level with the ground
My father is a husbandman
I am
Whoa!
Whoa!
My father is a husbandman
I am
I am
I am the true vine
Oooh!
Source: Frank Basile's transcription in booklet accompanying Shanachie
box set Rev Gary Davis 'Demons and Angels: The Ultimate Collection'
Shanachie 6117.
Note:
This is a transcription of a 1960s recording. Davis had previously
recorded the piece in 1935 with some different 'floaters'. Josh
White recorded it in 1933 as 'My Father Is A Husbandman' and Eddie
Head & Family recorded it in 1930 as 'Lord, I Am The True
Vine'. The title is drawn from John 15:1 – 'I am the true
vine and my father is the husbandman'. |
