{"id":7106,"date":"2008-12-01T17:14:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T21:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7106"},"modified":"2008-12-01T17:14:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T21:14:27","slug":"go-tell-it-on-the-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7106","title":{"rendered":"Go Tell It On The Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Go_Tell_It_On_The_Mountain.jpg\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Go_Tell_It_On_The_Mountain.mp3\">Go Tell It On The Mountain<\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\n<p>I bought a mandolin in Ft. Worth Texas on this tour and decided to use it here. I remember hearing this song on a vinyl two record set with a pop-up Christmas scene called &#8220;Home For Christmas,&#8221; sung by Mahalia Jackson. It has always been a favorite.<\/p>\n<p>More From Wikipedia:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Go Tell It on the Mountain&#8221; is an African-American spiritual dating back to at least 1865 that has been sung and recorded by many gospel and secular performers. It is considered a Christmas carol because its original lyric celebrates the Nativity: &#8220;Go tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere; go tell it on the mountain, that Jesus Christ is born.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 1963, Peter Yarrow, Noel &#8220;Paul&#8221; Stookey, and Mary Travers, along with their musical director, Milt Okun, adapted and rewrote &#8220;Go Tell It on the Mountain&#8221; as &#8220;Tell It on the Mountain&#8221;, their lyrics referring specifically to Exodus and employing the line &#8220;Let my people go,&#8221; but implicitly referring to the Civil Rights struggle of the early &#8217;60s. The song was recorded by Yarrow, Stookey and Travers on their Peter, Paul and Mary album In the Wind and was also a moderate hit single for them. (US #33 pop, 1964). Civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer used this rewritten version of the song as an anthem during the mid-1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Other artists, besides Peter, Paul and Mary, who have recorded the song (chiefly on either Christmas-themed music albums or collections of spirituals or folk songs) include:<\/p>\n<p>    * The New Christy Minstrels<br \/>\n    * Simon &#038; Garfunkel<br \/>\n    * Bob Marley<br \/>\n    * Mahalia Jackson<br \/>\n    * Fred Hammond<br \/>\n    * Kirk Franklin<br \/>\n    * Candi Staton<br \/>\n    * Frank Sinatra &#038; Bing Crosby<br \/>\n    * James Taylor<br \/>\n    * Cece Winans<br \/>\n    * Anne Murray<br \/>\n    * Vanessa L. Williams<br \/>\n    * Jewel<br \/>\n    * Dustin Kensrue<br \/>\n    * Bruce Cockburn<br \/>\n    * Little Big Town<br \/>\n    * Sherill Milnes<br \/>\n    * John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers<br \/>\n    * Sara Evans<br \/>\n    * Jim Nabors<br \/>\n    * Toby Keith<br \/>\n    * Peter Tosh<br \/>\n    * The Blind Boys of Alabama<br \/>\n    * Oh Susanna &#8211; for the holiday compilation album, Maybe This Christmas Too? (2003)<br \/>\n    * Dolly Parton<br \/>\n    * Carola H\u00c3\u00a4ggkvist<br \/>\n    * Bobby Darin<br \/>\n    * Art Paul Schlosser (who rewrote the lyrics for kids with the title, &#8220;Go Tell it On the Swingset&#8221;)<br \/>\n    * The Gas House Gang\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n<p>Refrain<br \/>\n[F] Go, tell it on the mountain,<br \/>\n[C] Over the hills and [F] everywhere<br \/>\nGo, tell it on the mountain,<br \/>\nThat [F] Jesus [C] Christ is [F] born.<\/p>\n<p>[C] The shepherds feared and [F] trembled,<br \/>\n[C] When low above the [F] earth,<br \/>\n[C] Rang out the angels chorus<br \/>\nThat [G7] hailed our Savior&#8217;s [C] bi&#8211;rth.<br \/>\nRefrain<\/p>\n<p>While shepherds kept their watching<br \/>\no\u00e2\u20ac\u2122er silent flocks by night,<br \/>\nBehold, throughout the heavens<br \/>\nThere shone a holy li&#8211;ght<br \/>\nRefrain<\/p>\n<p>And lo! When they had heard it,<br \/>\nThey all bowed down to pray,<br \/>\nThen travelled on together,<br \/>\nTo where the Baby la&#8211;y.<br \/>\nRefrain<\/p>\n<p>Down in a lowly manger<br \/>\nThe humble Christ was born<br \/>\nAnd God sent us salvation<br \/>\nThat blessed Christmas mo&#8211;rn.<br \/>\nRefrain<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Go Tell It On The Mountain I bought a mandolin in Ft. Worth Texas on this tour and decided to use it here. I remember hearing this song on a vinyl two record set with a pop-up Christmas scene called &#8220;Home For Christmas,&#8221; sung by Mahalia Jackson. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7106\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Go Tell It On The Mountain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seasonal","category-spiritual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8718,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7106\/revisions\/8718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}