Ain't No Grave (Can Hold My Body Down) - Johnny Cash

[ellisonz]

Go down yonder Gabriel

put your foot on the land and sea

now blow your trumpet boy until you hear from me

There ain't no grave gonna hold my body down

there ain't no grave gonna hold my body down

when you hear that trumpet sound

gonna get up out of the ground

there ain't no grave gonna hold my body down



Looked over Jordan, what did I see?

A band of angels coming after me

There ain't no grave gonna hold my body down

there ain't no grave gonna hold my body down

when you hear that trumpet sound

gonna get up out of the ground

there ain't no grave gonna hold my body down



Meet me Jesus meet me

Meet me in the middle of the air

if these wings fail me, meet me with another pair

There ain't no grave gonna hold my body down

there ain't no grave gonna hold my body down

when you hear that trumpet sound

gonna get up out of the ground

there ain't no grave gonna hold my body down


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0MIFHLIzZY

[struggle4progress]

1. Odetta - Aint no grave can hold my body down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM6GVw5bmKE

[ellisonz]

3. Odetta really doesn't get enough mention.

Odetta influenced Harry Belafonte, who "cited her as a key influence" on his musical career;<20> Bob Dylan, who said, "The first thing that turned me on to folk singing was Odetta. I heard a record of hers in a record store, back when you could listen to records right there in the store. Right then and there, I went out and traded my electric guitar and amplifier for an acoustical guitar, a flat-top Gibson. ... just something vital and personal. I learned all the songs on that record.";<25> Joan Baez who said "Odetta was a goddess. Her passion moved me. I learned everything she sang.";<26> Janis Joplin, who "spent much of her adolescence listening to Odetta, who was also the first person Janis imitated when she started singing";<27> poet Maya Angelou who once said "If only one could be sure that every 50 years a voice and a soul like Odetta's would come along, the centuries would pass so quickly and painlessly we would hardly recognize time.";<28> John Waters, whose original screenplay for Hairspray mentions her as an influence on beatniks.<29> and Carly Simon, who cited Odetta as a major influence, and talked about "going weak in the knees" when she had the opportunity to meet her in Greenwich Village<30>


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odetta#Influence

[ellisonz]

4. Odetta and Johnny Cash

Odetta on "The Johnny Cash Show," August 30, 1969. The first song she performs is based on a Negro "field blues" song known simply as "Black Woman," then duets with Cash on "Shame And Scandal In The Family," which was written by a calypso artist who went by Sir Lancelot, in the 40s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_a8_6yPMkE

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. Tom Jones - Ain't No Grave

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRkInLtTrPo

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