Tune Req: I'm bound for the promised land

Subject: I'm bound for the promised land
From: Banjoman_CO
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 08:39 PM

I have looked in the digitrad and all of the other databases that I can think of and have not found this old spiritual. It is either "I'm bound..... or "I am bound..." I don't know if this is the title or just a line from the song. I could use some help.

Banjoman

Subject: RE: Tune Req: I'm bound for the promised land
From: Uncle Jaque
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 09:11 PM

Bjm: Try the following links; If they don't turn it up fer ye, let me know as I'm pretty sure we have it in the collection somewhere!
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/7632/sh91index.html

http://www.ccel.org/#Hymns

http://tch.simplenet.com/index.htm http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/7632/midi.html http://www.ccel.org/w/watts/psalmshymns/TOC.htm
Uncle Jaque

Subject: RE: Tune Req: I'm bound for the promised land
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 09:21 PM

Try searching for On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand

I found it at the Cyber Hymnal here.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: I'm bound for the promised land
From: Marymac90
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 09:46 PM

There is a tune that uses this for a chorus in _The Sacred Harp_. It goes:

I am bound for the promised la-a-and,
I am bound for the pro-o-mised land,
da, da-da-, da, da da-da-da-da da,
I am bound for the pro-o-mised land

I think the third line changes with each verse, but none of the lines used are coming to me right now-sorry.

Sacred Harp tunes frequently have titles that have nothing to do with the lyrics, so I'm not going to hazard a guess as to what the title actually is. Accomplished singers actually know them all by number, anyway. There is a Sacred Harp website at fasola.org

If that doesn't help you, email me at [e-mail], and I will look for my book again. I tried to find my copy yesterday and couldn't, and I'm don't even feel like trying tonight. Maybe I could find it now, since I actually cleaned house-(will wonders never cease!)-or maybe I need to look in my car again!

Mary McCaffrey

Subject: RE: Tune Req: I'm bound for the promised land
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 09:47 PM

New additions at the Cyber Hymnal! Pardon the thread creep, but anyone who loves hymns might be interested. The Cyber Hymnal is also in the Mudcat links.

I just checked the Cyber Hymnal for the first time in a few months, and they now have 1)I Vow to Thee My Country and 2)Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy (to the Beechspring tune.)

I Vow to Thee My Country

Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy

You have to click on the midi link at this last page to hear the Beechspring tune. It was the tune used in Ken Burns' Lewis and Clark special. I wrote to the Cyber Hymnal last year (or earlier) and asked about this tune, but they thought there were copyright problems. Since it was an old tune, it seems that it's OK. Give it a listen, it's gorgeous.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: I'm bound for the promised land
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 09:55 PM

Here's another midi at Southern Harmony http://www.ccel.org/s/southern_harmony/sharm/sharm/hymn/t=The+Promised+Land.html

Subject: RE: Tune Req: I'm bound for the promised land
From: Uncle Jaque
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 09:58 PM

That 3rd line is: "Oh won't you come and go with me; We are Bound for the promised land." It may well be "Jordan's Stormy Banks". I'll look it up - quite sure we have it.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: I'm bound for the promised land
From: Uncle Jaque
Date: 24 Sep 00 - 10:25 PM

BINGO!!! See my recently posted "Lyr Add" for "Jordan's Stormy Banks".
I don't always have this much time on my hands to haunt this forum(recovering from surgery @ home past week) so don't hesitate to drop me e-mail for any old Hymn tunes you might be looking for & unable to find on the 'net - I have scads of 'em back to 1800!
Uncle J

Subject: RE: Tune Req: I'm bound for the promised land
From: fox4zero
Date: 25 Sep 00 - 01:34 AM

Song by (?First Name)Karnes on Kentucky Gospel CD; the same one with the great Ernest Phipps and the Holiness Singers which was alluded to in the recent thread "A Little Talk with Jesus" Larry Parish

Subject: RE: Tune Req: I'm bound for the promised land
From: Stewie
Date: 25 Sep 00 - 02:00 AM

The tune that Alfred G. Karnes used for his rendition of 'Bound' was 'Don't Let Your Deal Go Down'.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: I'm bound for the promised land
From: Burke
Date: 25 Sep 00 - 11:36 AM

The Lyr Add left the word "those" out of the 1st line of verse 2.
2. All o'er those wide extended plains
shines one eternal day
There God the Son forever reigns
and scatters night away

It should be noted that Samuel Stennett wrote the verses, but the chorus is probably from a different source. The verses are used for 6 tunes in the Sacred Harp, but only one has the Promised Land chorus.

See On Jordan's stormy banks I stand at the Sacred Harp Concordance.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: I'm bound for the promised land
From: Dale Rose
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 12:00 AM

I have added the music from Heavenly Highways, and the words from the Cyber Hymnal to my Good Old Songs pages. I Am Bound For The Promised Land Note that HH gives three verses, Uncle Jaque four, and the Cyber Hymnal seven.

Thanks to Uncle Jaque and all the others who brought this fine old hymn back to us!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: I'm bound for the promised land
From: Banjoman_CO
Date: 28 Sep 00 - 09:48 AM

Thanks to everyone who helped on this. I've got it now. Thanks again.

Banjoman