Go, Tell It On The Mountain

Christmas Song - Go Tell It On The Mountain Lyrics

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One of the most common is gospel, particularly with a choir supporting a soloist. The challenge with a gospel flavored version is keeping it accessible for the congregation to sing along. Jeanine Noyes offers a fun, catch version with a fairly accessible gospel feel. If your church has a soloist, he or she can improvise while the congregation repeats the chorus. Another popular style for this hymn is bluegrass. This works particularly well for a praise band with a mandolin or banjo player, but acoustic guitar works as well. Needtobreathe, a Christian folk-rock band, has a particularly good version of the hymn that includes a bridge: Hallelujah, hallelujah, the Savior of the World.

It could also be used during Epiphany to remind us that now that Christ has been revealed to us, we must also make him known among the nations. The refrain of the hymn references many passages in Isaiah that echo the call to proclaim good news from the mountain. Blues style for Choir Schram, Ruth Elaine. Set 1 , for Organ Larson, Lloyd.

A separate copy of this score must be purchased for each choir member. If this score will be projected or included in a bulletin, usage must be reported to a licensing agent e. Skip to main content. On behalf of the entire Hymnary. Go, Tell It on the Mountain. While shepherds kept their watching Adapter: FlexScores are available in the Media section below. You have access to this FlexScore. Text size Text size:.

Music size Music size:. This is a preview of your FlexScore. A New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools Go tell it on the mountain First Line: While shepherds kept their watching Tune Title: Go tell it Date: African American Heritage Hymnal Testimony, Witness and Evangelism Source: African-American spiritual, stanzas, alt. Anglican Hymns Old and New Rev. Go, tell it on the mountain First Line: Go, tell it on the mountain Tune Title: Baptist Hymnal Celebrating Grace Hymnal Christmas ; Jesus Christ ; Jesus Christ: Birth ; Spirituals Source: Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New Evangelical Lutheran Worship Christmas ; Songs for Children ; Witness Source: African American spiritual Refrain.

Even though he does that Baldwin does give clues about the future. But when he reached the summit he paused; he stood on the crest of the hill, hands clasped beneath his chin, looking down. Then he, John, felt like a giant who might crumble this city with his anger. As many others have said the novel is drenched in the King James Bible and the Blues. The character of Gabriel Grimes is mesmerizing in a horrific sort of way.

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His treatment of the women in his life contrasted with his religious life is stark. There is a strong sense of the importance of women in the community and in reality holding things together. That leads me to one of my few niggles; I wanted it to be longer! View all 8 comments. A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. Then the ironic voice, terrified, it seemed, of no depth, no darkness, demanded of John, scornfully, if he believed that he was cursed.

I thought it would be a coming-to-age book of sorts focused fully on John but it is more like a group of interconnected stories showing the impact religion has on people. With John, it resulted in repression of and feeling guilt at his natural instincts. Gabriel, his father, too felt guilt over his own sexual affairs but each time he does so he makes himself believe that God has forgiven him even though he happened to ruin a few lives on the way — the hypocrisy. Guilt, denial, fear and hypocrisy. They both tried to take hold of their own lives to go after their dreams only to find themselves brought down the world … or God, whatever you like — like is often the fate of so many rebellious underdogs ….

You know come to think of it, this is second book which I have reviewed in a row which is sad. And whenever I'm depressed I turn to religion I mean where else will you find so many things to laugh at? Today we have something serious to talk about - And that is this illusion that religions are against homosexuality, nothing is far from truth. The problem is that people lay too much importance on the 'word' - as if the 'word' is everything, I mean are you really naive enough to believe that spoonfuls which Mary Popkins gave to the children were, in fact, of sugar?

Same aplies to rellgion. Now you can't suppose that saints or religious folks could have told those ancient or medieval folks that homosexuality is good, or later would have simply killed them. No, you have to learn to read between the lines - just think about it, religions always ask women to keep their bodies covered, seperate the people of two sexes on pretext of morality, tradition and war, the very monasteries are full of men who have nothing except books to keep then busy and are against abortion, also people of opposite sex are often addressed as 'brothers' and 'sisters' - I mean what kind of sexuality does it promote?

I tell you, you know people by their action not by their words. It says so in scriptures too - "you shall know a tree by fruits it bears". I tell you relgion is all about repressed sexuality. And then so many religious heads had multiple wives; tell me, how come no one suggested that they have a better chance at sexual satisfaction if they had tried someone of opposite sex for a change?

You don't believe me? But talking about Christianity - and mind you, I have always liked Christ, because he is one of few religious figures who chose to let themselves die rather than kill or asking others to die or kill on their behalf. Moreover, for last couple of years, I have been a true Christian, I know it may not agree with some of other things I keep on saying but it is true, I have been instinctively following Christ's message - love thy neighbor. I mean, yes, she is not Christian enough to reciprocate I know, how infidel right!

And if you only get high on word, than remember ultimate dictum of morality across all religions 'Do not do unto others what you don't want done unto yourself'. It is impossible to follow this rule in heterosexuality due to simple physical reason of different sex organs. It is, in fact, a living adevtesiment of homosexual sex Anyway, as I was saying, I read gospels and you know there is this particular part that I want to bring to your notice I'm not going to draw conclusions, all interpretations you might draw will be your own.

I'm just going to state facts. So, it is the last supper time, Jesus has just announced, that it is his farewell party, to his apostles, all of whom coincidentally happen to be men, who drank from same cup mind you, I'm not suggesting anything and all heavily drunk and sad about Christ's departure and And, and, and they have a whole night to themselves.

View all 5 comments. James Baldwin's body of writing and published work includes essays, plays, poetry, and six novels, of which Go Tell It on the Mountain was the first It is a semi-autobiographical look at life in 's Harlem, especially for African-Americans. It focuses on their struggles for equality -economically, socially, and culturally- in this great melting pot of a city where racial prejudice was as much a part of life as it was in the South. Baldwin uses the voice of one of his characters to mak James Baldwin's body of writing and published work includes essays, plays, poetry, and six novels, of which Go Tell It on the Mountain was the first Baldwin uses the voice of one of his characters to make this point.

There was only this difference: The story is told through the voice of 14 year old John Grimes, with long back stories of his aunt Florence, his step-father Gabriel, and his mother Elizabeth. Religion is a major theme of the book, both the good and bad influences it had, as it did also with a young James Baldwin in Harlem. The position of this novel as a classic in modern American literature is secure.

Both Modern Library and Time Magazine list it in their " best novels of the 20th century". May 16, Raul Bimenyimana rated it really liked it. Like the previous Baldwin books I've read, this book is charged with a deep sense of longing and discovery. At the centre of the story is John, an awkward fourteen year old African American boy who grapples with the uncertainty of his place in the world. Set in the first half of the 20th century, mostly in New York and with parts in America's South, Baldwin narrates with great eloquence of the struggle of life and the role of Faith in it.

I believe great books, like this one, disrobe us, in the w Like the previous Baldwin books I've read, this book is charged with a deep sense of longing and discovery. I believe great books, like this one, disrobe us, in the way that Baldwin himself once said: It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive. View all 10 comments. Sep 27, Christy rated it really liked it Shelves: James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain , an autobiographical novel first published in , is a beautifully written exploration of religious experience in African American life, both North and South.

The primary narrative covers less than 24 hours and is focused by the central character's 14th birthday and religious conversion experience. The book is divided into three sections: Baldwin's use of religion in this novel reveals the ways in which religious experience and ideology can make a life in this oppressive world even worse. The adults we meet in the novel have all sinned and fallen short, sometimes as a direct result of their social position and inability to carry on a fully human life in the face of racial prejudice and oppression, but there is no acknowledgment of these racial and class difficulties in their religious beliefs or practices.

Their God holds them to the same high standard that middle-class or upper-class whites are held to. How much harder to obey strictures against theft when you cannot get and hold a job, when you cannot go into any store you like, when you cannot buy what you need? How much harder to obey strictures that insist that sex is only for marriage when marriages collapse because of these financial strains--or cannot even begin because of them?

Religion thus serves to make hard lives even harder by providing internal oppression to complement the external oppression they face, even while it provides an emotional and social outlet in the services, music, and transcendent experiences. Baldwin does not make one explicit argument about religion or about the African American experience. He is not writing a political novel in the way that Richard Wright's Native Son is a political novel Baldwin in fact was quite critical of Wright's Native Son , arguing that it lacked realistic characterization and was too broad and heavy-handed ; instead, Baldwin provides an examination of the black experience through religion and shows the different ways that religion fits into a larger sense of what it meant to be black in this America by focusing on a few individuals and their experiences, showing, further, how it feels to live these lives.

In the end, John's religious experience is not the end of the story, but the beginning. Baldwin leaves the reader with an ambiguous vision of John's future. Will he be able to use this religious experience to help raise himself up, become a better person, escape the oppression of racism? Or will he fall into sin, as humans do?

But it is even more complex than that: Will he use religion to become a better person or will he merely, as others have done before him, use religion to bolster his ego? When John's conversion follows the hypocrisy and flaws of his father, a preacher, even religion isn't enough to guarantee John's future.

Feb 21, Matt rated it it was amazing Shelves: Reading this, years ago, I was struck by something I didn't think I'd be struck with. I was reaised religious, not in anything close to the kind of religiostity he describes- visceral, pummeling, hyperintense- but pretty far-reaching and existential in my own right, if I do say so myself.

Anyway, I was throttled by the sheer force and passion and earnestness of the writing here.

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I've been on that threshing floor, and even as I feel self-conscious about making that claim, I'm not going Reading this, years ago, I was struck by something I didn't think I'd be struck with. I've been on that threshing floor, and even as I feel self-conscious about making that claim, I'm not going to not say it just because I don't want to sound rediculous.

I can't help it. I haven't even considered trying to re-open the thing because I don't want to take another glimpse at those depths again. Though, now that I come to think of it, I really probably should This insight, or shock, opened up a whole slew of convictions I am not black, harlem-raised, gay, pentcostal, or whatever. I share pretty much none of James Baldwin's social characteristics but I saw myself and my own inner life at least my inner life at one time, recations, mediations, fear and trembling, etc in this book.

If we are truly prisoners of context- social conditioning, capitalism, etc. I should have been glazed by this book. It should have been totally foreign to me, a relic or a historical curiosity or what-have-you. It was an epiphany, so to speak. Therefore I must conclude the very boring and old fashioned and perhaps even logically wrong argument that all literature at least, great literature is universally human and humanly universal, if that makes any sense. We interpret everything through our own cultural lens, no doubt, and we express everything through same but the bedrock foundation, or motivating core, or whatever is something apart but central I hope I'm making sense with this.

Anyway that's what books are for, right? Connecting through time with a complete stranger who will remain so, in a literal sense, no matter what you do. I might have even misinterpreted it. Baldwin might have been going for or accomplished something utterly different than what I took away from it, but somehow I doubt it. If I missed the boat, why would I still be here writing this about a book I read several years ago? It's strange and wonderful to connect like this.

It's something that you hunt for the rest of your reading days. I truly believe that LIFE has been served in this, in the sense of a candle being relit or given more oxygen.

Vitality of imagination and memory and intellect and such promoted. And I've moved on. And life reading has been the richer for it. THAT'S what this thing of ours, fellow readers and fellow writers too, naturally , that's what this thing of ours is all about.

A great coming-of-age depicting 14 year old John's journey to conversion. The book has a strong Christian setting, with quite a few good sermons and biblical language scattered throughout it. I detested Gabriel, John's father, a hypocritical, womanizing, abusive preacher with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. View all 3 comments. Jun 10, Parthiban Sekar rated it it was amazing Shelves: Guilt is a cognitive or an emotional experience that occurs when a person realizes or believes—accurately or not—that he or she has compromised his or her own standards of conduct or has violated a moral standard and bears significant responsibility for that violation.

A Collective Guilt … A guilt of many… millions for the sinful committal of shedding the blood of His holiness. Driven by the guilt, people went back to the holy Guilt is a cognitive or an emotional experience that occurs when a person realizes or believes—accurately or not—that he or she has compromised his or her own standards of conduct or has violated a moral standard and bears significant responsibility for that violation.

Driven by the guilt, people went back to the holy ghost who they set free from the body of His holiness, stood at the gates of the heaven, and asked Him on their knees for the redemption. Well, Redemption is not an act, but a process — a perpetual process, at least for most of the people - in which apparently people could not stay the hand of Satan, for which the Broadway to the hell seems more lucrative and alluring than the holy narrow way.

Can the almighty truly free someone off from his sins? Even if He blesses us salvation, can we really move on, leaving our sins behind us as if nothing has ever happened? Why were Adam and Eve sent away from the Eden? They acted only to the vicarious temptation of the serpent or the devil.

But, Can the salvation of the descendants free their ancestors from their sins? Baldwin takes this poor family of a preacher Gabriel, who under the guilt-love for his dying mother, forced himself to surrender to the god, as he was mortified by his involuntary sins. But, he couldn't completely free himself from the influence of Satan and the sins were continuously happening, along with sermons, as if they share the same father, but different mothers! Still unable to overcome his guilt, when the road to redemption seems unreachable, he religiously forces his step-son John against his interest to take his holy path in which he would not be succeed.

Thus, this story portrays the ordeal of Poor John who is continuously being pushed along the holy aisle in The temple of the fire baptized towards Him for deliverance. Will his fire be baptized? If I say that James had tried to tell the story on a religious mountain covered with snow of faith and shrouded in cloud of sins always ready to descend upon and surround it , wishing to reach the sky of the God, It would not be less… Disclaimer: This being a religious book, talking about it without mentioning about some religious terms would be meaningless.

I hope it didn't speak bad of any such sentiments. You can't talk about how to make apple pie View all 4 comments. At a time when I was spirialing in self-doubt and slight depression, when I was trying to figure out life and find myself, I found this book while browsing the shelves at the San Frnacisco public librry and lived these lives with such passion and clarity I was brought back into the realm of sensousness and divinity.

I read this book and felt saved. Saved from the torture of having to live life alone, from the limp mass-market suspense thrillers that were mere diversions of the soul, saved from m At a time when I was spirialing in self-doubt and slight depression, when I was trying to figure out life and find myself, I found this book while browsing the shelves at the San Frnacisco public librry and lived these lives with such passion and clarity I was brought back into the realm of sensousness and divinity.

Saved from the torture of having to live life alone, from the limp mass-market suspense thrillers that were mere diversions of the soul, saved from my ego.

Go Tell It on the Mountain

I loved this book. Oct 17, Rebecca McNutt rated it it was amazing Shelves: Go Tell It on the Mountain is such a powerful classic, a story of a boy trying to find his place in the world but unsure what that place is. Ich hatte gerade begonnen, Column McCanns Transatlantik zu lesen. In dem gerade beendeten Kapitel geht es um den ehemaligen afroamerikanischen Sklaven Douglass, der Irland bereist. Auch Baldwin trieb es ca. Sklaverei gab es nun in den USA nicht mehr, aber Gleichberechtigung war noch immer nicht erreicht.

Im Gegenteil, wird die Sprachgewalt dieses Romans von der Religion befeuert. Doch erscheint es hier folgerichtig und zudem sehr ambivalent. Alle haben irgendwann auch hehre Ziele und Ideale. Liebe und Hass liegen ebenso dicht beieinander wie Stolz und Demut. Die Personen leiden nicht nur unter einem Rassismus, dem sie ausgeliefert sind, sie leiden auch unter einem erstaunlichen Selbsthass. Ein Roman, der wohl kaum jemanden kaltlassen kann und einem lange durch den Sinn geht. Im deutschen Feuilleton wurde die Neuauflage von James Baldwins autobiografisch beeinflusstem Roman mit Begeisterung aufgenommen.

Jan 09, J. First, this book feels like an epic and it's only two hundred and fifty pages. Second, it hurts like hell, and this is because it's too real. One line that struck me particularly was when a sister challenges her brother that his faith is fake, since all it ever did was hurt people, which is no change from who he was before conversion. I should have the book to hand and set it down, but maybe you should just read it. The obvious conclusion is that I need to read more Baldwin, but while hhis searc First, this book feels like an epic and it's only two hundred and fifty pages.

The obvious conclusion is that I need to read more Baldwin, but while hhis search for truth is unadulterated by any bullshit, the truth he finds is grim. Both books provoked a dark sorrow, with the way they highlighted the injustices in our society, and particularly the singular plight of our forgotten. Easy, and American paths to hope are passed over. I don't think this is hard to explain. Edith Wharton and Thomas Hardy looked down from the upper and lower upper class respectively, and decided that life was hopeless down there. They didn't know about the little joys that the common people know, the passing on of tales, the moments of shared suffering, the hope offered in little victories.

Baldwin is a black man and a homosexual, and the idea that he writes about the pain of the outcast without presuming that someone else's life is hopeless. Still, I can say he's completely on point and be loath to pick up the next one. Which doesn't mean I won't. Reading should hurt sometimes- the truth hurts, because the truth is all there really is I feel this one just wasn't for me.

I didn't engage with this novel at all.

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