DO LORD, DO REMEMBER ME
Created on 16/12/2008Latest update on 10/11/2023
Artist: Garner Brothers
Author: traditional
Label: JGS (Gennett)
Year: 1925
Covers:
- 1925:
R.C. Garner [as I'm On My Way To Heaven for the same label]
- 1926:
Willard Robison [melody halfway Harlem Blues]
- 1927:
Ernest Phipps & his Holiness Quartet [as Do Lord Remember Me for Victor]
- 1927:
Ollis Martin [as Police And High Sheriff]
- 1927:
Crockett Ward and his Boys [as Deadheads And Suckers]
- 1927:
Aiken County String Band [instrumental as High Sheriff; only cut six sides during their only session, two of which came out in England on Parlophone to test reactions]
- 1928:
Rev. Johnny Blakey [as I'm On My Way To Heaven]
- 1928:
Blind Roger Hays [idem; presumed source of the Waterboys' version]
- 1930:
Carter Family [same melody in Worried Man Blues]
- 1932:
Rodgers & Nicholson [idem; members of the Carolina Ramblers String Band]
- 1936:
Monroe Brothers [as My Long Journey Home]
- 1937:
J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers [as Lights In The Valley]
- 1940:
Woody Guthrie [as Worried Man Blues]
- 1951:
John Reedy and his Stone Mountain Boys [as Somebody Touched Me]
- 1955:
Lonnie Donegan [as Worried Man Blues]
- 1958:
Billy Grammer [guitar player with Jimmy Dean's Texas Wildcats as Gotta Travel On, top 5 US, the first hit for Fred Foster's Monument label, who shared credits]
- 1958:
Pete Seeger [as Worried Man Blues and in '58 as Done Laid Around]
- 1958:
Harry Belafonte [as Done Laid Around]
- 1959:
Johnny Cash [as Do Lord, again on his cd Mother's Hymn Book in '99]
- 1959:
Angola Choir [as I Take Jesus]
- 1960:
Weavers [added a few stanzas and a couple of authors]
- 1961:
- 1961:
Stanley Brothers [as Somebody Touched Me]
- 1964:
Doc Watson Family [as Lights In The Valley]
- 1966:
Ferre Grignard [as Somebody Touched Me]
- 1966:
Lena Horne [as I Got A Worried Man]
- 1988:
Waterboys [as On My Way To Heaven]
- 1998:
Dink Roberts [as High Sheriff]
- 1998:
Van Morrison-Lonnie Donegan-Chris Barber [as It Takes A Worried Man; revisited by Van in '23 as Worrid Man Blues on Moving On Skiffle]
- 2012:
Neil Young [as Travel On]
- 2023:
Pere Ubu [idem; Who composed this song? fans ask David Thomas any time he sings it]
- 2023:
Van Morrison [as Worried Man Blues]
First line of Hank Williams' I Saw The Light also relates. Some cluster! As Do Lord, Remember Me also by the Golden Eagle Gospel Singers and by Mississippi John Hurt, as Gotta Travel On (see: Done Laid Around), as My Long Journey Home (see there), as Somebody Touched Me (see there) and as Worried Man Blues (see there).
