Don't Weep After Me (traditional)

When I'm dead and buried don't you weep after me
I don't want you to weep after me

Sailin' on the ocean, don't you weep after me
I don't want you to weep after me

On the good ship Zion, don't you weep after me
I don't want you to weep after me

King Peter is the captain, don't you weep after me
I don't want you to weep after me

And the angels is the sailors, don't you weep after me
I don't want you to weep after me

Lookin' over Jordan, don't you weep after me
I don't want you to weep after me

When I'm dead and buried don't you weep after me
I don't want you to weep after me

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Don't You Weep After Me

1. When I'm dead and buried, 
  Don't you weep after me.
  When I'm dead and buried,
  Don't you weep after me.
  When I'm dead and buried,
  Don't you weep after me.
  Oh, I don't want you to weep after me.

2. Sailin' on the ocean,
  Don't you weep after meЕ

3. In the good old ship of ZionЕ

4. King Peter is the captainЕ

5. Bright angels are the sailorsЕ

6. You poor distressed sinnersЕ

7. Oh, look-a MaryЕ

8. She's lookin' over JordanЕ

9. O, look-a MarthaЕ

10. Oh, run along my friendsЕ

11. Tell my Lord I'm comingЕ

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Subject: When I'm on My Journey
From: rcleland@isothermal.cc.nc.us 
Date: 15 Jun 98 - 06:14 PM 

Last week I heard a couple verses of this song on "Chicago Hope"
(in a childhood flashback in the hallucinations of Aaron Shutt,
who as a child performed this song and played guitar) and have
been singing it ever since. 
What are the rest of the words? What is the origin of this song? 

All I got from the program was: 

"When I'm on my journey don't you weep after me,
When I'm on my journey don't you weep after me,
When I'm on my journey don't you weep after me,
I don't want you to weep after me. 

Every little river's got to run to the sea,...." 

And that was it. I'm hungry for more! 

Becky 
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Subject: RE: When I'm on My Journey
From: rich r 
Date: 15 Jun 98 - 11:46 PM 

The Chad Mitchell Trio recorded a version of this song
on their "MightyDay on Campus" album. The set of words
they use is: 

When I'm on my journey, don't you grieve after me 

Searchin' for a city, don't you.... 

I hear the trumpet sounding,.. 

We'll sing and shout for glory,... 

Come brother won't you join us,... 

They take some credit for "new words" on the disc label,
so there must be some old words also.
Perhaps changing "weep" to "grieve" is their idea of new words. 

rich r 
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Subject: RE: When I'm on My Journey
From: Joe Offer 
Date: 16 Jun 98 - 07:28 PM 

You'll find it here in our database.
I believe the Weavers did a recording of the song,
and I think it's on their Vanguard 4-disc set.
-Joe Offer- 
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Subject: RE: When I'm on My Journey
From: rich r 
Date: 16 Jun 98 - 10:59 PM 

I thought a version ought to be in here.
I searched: journey; grieve; journey weep;
grieve journey all no luck.
Would be that the version has neither journey nor grieve.
I did learn though that the line "grieves my heart full sore"
is in a lot of songs. 
rich r 
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Subject: RE: When I'm on My Journey (Don't You Weep After M
From: Joe Offer 
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 05:17 PM 

I swear this was a Weavers song,
but I can't find it on any recording.
What title did they use?
-Joe Offer- 
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Subject: RE: When I'm on My Journey (Don't You Weep After M
From: Uncle_DaveO 
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 05:46 PM 

It definitely is a Weavers song,
and I've got it somewhere in the cabinet.
I'll see if I can find it.

Dave Oesterreich 
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Subject: RE: When I'm on My Journey (Don't You Weep After Me)
From: Q 
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 05:50 PM 

The chorus or first verse appears in several spirituals;
the cluster including "When I'm Gone*,"
"Don't You Grieve After Me," "When I'm on My Journey," etc.
The version "Don't You Weep Over Me," in the DT,
has the first verse and added verses from other spirituals.
I would imagine several of the old groups,
including the Weavers, sang versions of the song.

* I will post in a new thread. This seems to be the simplest title. 
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Subject: RE: When I'm on My Journey (Don't You Weep After M
From: Joe Offer 
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 05:55 PM 

Ah, I found it - it's on one of their Carnegie Hall recordings,
and in their Vanguard Wasn't That a Time? box set.
I'll post one or two versions shortly. They call it "On My Journey."
Great song. One of those Weavers rousers that's easy to sing along with.
The Version in the DT is very close to what you'll find in the pink
Collected Reprints from Sing Out! book. The "Reprints" book says
the song is a spiritual from the Bahamas,
recorded on Pete Seeger at the Village Gate, Folkways FA 2450.
-Joe Offer- 
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Subject: ADD: On My Journey (Weavers Version)
From: Joe Offer 
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 06:04 PM 

On My Journey
(new verses by Darling/Gilbert/Hays/Hellerman)

When I'm on my journey, don't you weep after me,
When I'm on my journey, don't you weep after me,
When I'm on my journey, don't you weep after me,
I don't want you to weep after me.

Every lonely river must go home to the sea,
Every lonely river must go home to the sea,
Every lonely river must go home to the sea,
I don't want you to weep after me.

When the stars are fallin' and the thunder starts to roll,
When the stars are fallin' and the thunder starts to roll,
When the stars are fallin' and the thunder starts to roll,
I don't want you to weep after me.

High up on the mountain, leave my sorrow down below,
High up on the mountain, leave my sorrow down below,
High up on the mountain, leave my sorrow down below,
I don't want you to weep after me.

Source: The Weavers' Song Book (1960, Harper)
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 Here's the entry from the Traditional Ballad Index:
Don't You Weep After Me
DESCRIPTION: "When I'm dead and buried don't you weep after me (x3)....
I don't want you to weep after me."
Unrelated verses about death: "On the good ship of Zion";
"King Peter is my Captain"; "Bright angels are the sailors";
"When I do cross over"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1922 (Randolph)
KEYWORDS: death nonballad Bible funeral
FOUND IN: US(SE,So)
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Randolph 262, "Jacob's Ladder" (1 text, 1 tune --
a fragment so short that it can only tentatively be classified
with this piece; see also "Jacob's Ladder")
BrownIII 527, "Don't You Grieve After Me" (2 texts plus a fragment)
Silber-FSWB, p. 350, "Don't You Weep After Me" (1 text)
Roud #2286
RECORDINGS:
Pete Seeger, "Don't You Weep after Me" (on PeteSeeger26)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Jacob's Ladder" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Don't You Grieve After Me (I)" (floating lyrics)
cf. "Oh, They Put John on the Island" (floating lyrics)
ALTERNATE TITLES:
On My Journey
Don't You Grieve After Me
When I'm Dead and Buried
Notes: Both the Randolph fragment and Brown's "A" text and "B" fragment
are linked to "Jacob's Ladder." It is not clear
whether this link is original or coincidental. - RBW
File: R262
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Subject: RE: When I'm on My Journey (Don't You Weep After Me)
From: Q 
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 08:16 PM 

In the obituaries of the Blue Ridge Baptist Assn., 1923,
one of the lines is:
"Mother, don't grieve over me for the house is full of bright angels."
This is close to a line in the DT version. 
Bill Staines put some of the same ideas in his "Spirit Song."

I posted "When I'm Gone" in thread 82314: When I'm Gone 
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Subject: RE: When I'm on My Journey (Don't You Weep After Me)
From: Q 
Date: 22 Jun 05 - 09:21 PM 

"On My Journey," p. 172. "Weavers Song Book," Arr. Robert de Cormier;
177pp., arrangements for piano and guitar. Harper & Row, 1960.
Labeled Traditional.
Several other contributors to this book, including Seeger. 
Copies available for about $10 from used book dealers. 
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Subject: RE: When I'm on My Journey (Don't You Weep After M
From: Franz S. 
Date: 23 Jun 05 - 02:04 PM 

Pete Seeger recorded it on his Rainbow Quest album ( Folkways 1960),
one of my first recoding purchases. I've lost the notes,
but he does a mix of traditional lines and lines of his own, Viz:

When I'm dead and buried, don't you weep after me...
We're crossing Jordan's River...
Tell my dear old mother...
I'll be with you when you're singing...
When I do cross over...
I'll be with you when you're singing...

For some reason, in the last year or so whenever
I pick up my banjo this is usually the first tune
my fingers start playing. I fing it a great comfort. 
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When I'm dead and buried,
    Don't you weep after me
When I'm dead and buried,
    Don't you weep after me
When I'm dead and buried,
    Don't you weep after me
    Oh I don't want you to weep over me.

On the good ship of Zion,
    Don't you weep after me
On the good ship of Zion,
    Don't you weep after me
On the good ship of Zion,
    Don't you weep after me

King Peter is my captain etc.
Jordan is my river etc.
Oh, look-a Mary etc.
She's a-lookin' over Jordan etc.
Bright angels are the sailors etc.
Sailing on the oceasn etc.
When I do cross over etc.

Recorded by Pete Seeger
RG