Dem Bones
Words & Music:
Traditional Gospel
Correspondent Sandy Fisher
has provided the hand motions
to this song! See below... Both of
us found that doing the hand motions brought us right back to long ago camp
days.
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Lord, he thought he'd make a
man - dem bones gonna rise again!
Made him out of clay and sand
- dem bones gonna rise again!
CHORUS:
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I knowed it, knowed it,
indeed, I knowed it, brother!
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I knowed it. WHEE!!!! Dem bones gonna rise again!
Thought he'd make a woman too
- dem bones gonna rise again!
He didn't know just what to do
- dem bones gonna rise again! TO
CHORUS:
Took a rib from Adam's side -
dem bones gonna rise again!
For to make Miss Eve, his
bride - dem bones gonna rise again!
TO CHORUS:
Put 'em in a garden wide and
fair - dem bones gonna rise again!
Told 'em to eat what they
found there - dem bones gonna rise again!
TO CHORUS:
Peaches, pears, plums and such
- dem bones gonna rise again!
But the apple tree you better
not touch - dem bones gonna rise again!
TO CHORUS:
One day Miss Eve was walking
around - dem bones gonna rise again!
Spied that tree all loaded
down - dem bones gonna rise again!
TO CHORUS:
Serpent crawling around that
trunk - dem bones gonna rise again!
At miss Eve, his eye he wunk -
dem bones gonna rise again! TO
CHORUS:
Eve, she just took a little
pull - dem bones gonna rise again!
Then she filled her fig leaf
full - dem bones gonna rise again!
TO CHORUS:
Adam, he took a little slice -
dem bones gonna rise again!
Smacked his lips and said,
"ThatÕs nice!" - dem bones gonna rise again! TO CHORUS:
One day the Lord, He was
around - dem bones gonna rise again!
Spied them peelings on the
ground - dem bones gonna rise again!
TO CHORUS:
The Lord cried out in his
mighty voice - dem bones gonna rise again!
That shook the heavens to the
joists - dem bones gonna rise again!
TO CHORUS:
Cried, "Adam, Adam, Where
art though?" - dem bones gonna rise again!
"Here I is Lord, I's
comin' now." - dem bones gonna rise again! TO CHORUS:
"You ate my apples, I
believe." - dem bones gonna rise again!
"No, massa, Lord, I
'spect Ôtwas Eve - dem bones gonna rise again! TO CHORUS:
Then the Lord rose up in his
might wrath - dem bones gonna rise again!
Said ya'll just beat it down
the path - dem bones gonna rise again!
TO CHORUS:
Put an angel at the door - dem
bones gonna rise again!
Said ya'll don't come 'round
here no more - dem bones gonna rise again! TO CHORUS:
Eve took the needle, Adam took
the plow - dem bones gonna rise again!
That's why we all working now
- dem bones gonna rise again! TO
CHORUS:
To this tale there ain't no
more - dem bones gonna rise again!
Eve got the Apple, and Adam got
the core - dem bones gonna rise again!
TO CHORUS:
MOTIONS:
"Dem
bones" = circle your hands over each other in front of your chest (like a
football referee motioning the "Offsides" penalty)
"gonna"
= drop your hands to your lap, side by side
"rise again"
= slap your thighs & raise your arms (palms down) to your shoulders.
SandyÕs
variation:
"I know
it, know it" = move your hands & arms from right to left in time with
the songÕs beat as follows:
"I" = right, right
first "know it" = left
second "know it" = right
"Indeed, I" = left, left
"know it" = right
"brother" = left
My variation:
You move your
hands in time to the music and with the same right/left as SandyÕs, but instead
of just moving your hands & arms, you make an "L" by holding one
hand up before you with your elbow bent at a 90 degree angle and your palm at
eye level. Then, point to the
elbow with the other hand. So,
SandyÕs variation would become:
"I" = point to right elbow
twice
first "know it" = point to
left elbow once
second "know it" = point to
right elbow once
"Indeed, I" = point to left
elbow twice
"know it" = point to right
elbow once
"brother" = point to left
elbow once
"Whee!"
= throw both hands up in the air with glee
"Dem
bones" = circle your hands over each other in front of your chest (like a
football referee motioning the "Offsides" penalty)
"gonna"
= drop your hands to your lap, side by side
"rise
again" = slap your thighs & raise your arms (palms down) to your
shoulders.