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'''ROCKING IN A WEARY LAND.''' Old-Time, | '''ROCKING IN A WEARY LAND.''' Old-Time, Air (?). USA; southwestern Virginia, western North Carolina. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Rocking in a Weary Land" is slow walking-tempo tune in the repertoire of Luther Davis (1887-1986), Galax, Va., Bertie Mae Dickens of Ennice, North Carolina, and others from the southwest Virginia region. The title is biblical and comes from the Old Testament verse: | ||
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Jesus was referred to by American Christians as the ‘rock in a weary land. | Jesus was referred to by American Christians as the ‘rock in a weary land,’ and the tune may have originally belonged to a hymn. | ||
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Hear a | Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [http://www.ibiblio.org/keefer/r08.htm#Rocinaw]<br> | ||
Hear a recording of Luther Davis playing the tune [https://soundcloud.com/bosco-takaki/11-rocking-in-a-weary-land-by-luther-davis]<br> | |||
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Revision as of 05:00, 27 November 2017
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ROCKING IN A WEARY LAND. Old-Time, Air (?). USA; southwestern Virginia, western North Carolina. D Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. "Rocking in a Weary Land" is slow walking-tempo tune in the repertoire of Luther Davis (1887-1986), Galax, Va., Bertie Mae Dickens of Ennice, North Carolina, and others from the southwest Virginia region. The title is biblical and comes from the Old Testament verse:
Isaiah 32:1-2 Behold, a king shall reign in righteous and a prince shall rule in judgment. And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as a shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Jesus was referred to by American Christians as the ‘rock in a weary land,’ and the tune may have originally belonged to a hymn.