O mary dont you weep lyrics

There are many variations of this traditional song. Aretha Franklin's contains an enormous amount of reptition and ad libbing of both words and music.

Chorus:
Oh Mary don't you weep
Oh Martha don't you moan
Pharaoh's Army
All of them men got drowned in the sea one day.

Now if I could
If I could I surly would
I'd stand right up on the rock
I'd stand right where Moses stood.

Pharaoh's army
I know you know that story of
how they got drowned in the sea one day, oh yeah.

We gonna review the story of two sisters
Called Mary and Martha
They had a brother
Named Lazarus.

Their dear ol' brother died,
Well now Mary went running to Jesus
She said, "Master,
"Oh if you had've been here my brother wouldn't have died!"

Jesus said, "come on and show me, show
me where you, show me where you buried
him, show me where you laid him down!"

And when he got there, Jesus said,
"For the benefit of you who don't believe,
I'm gone call this creature, oh yes I am!

He said "Lazarus,
Hear my Hear my voice! Lazarus!
He got up walking like a natural man,
oh yes he did! Jesus said,
"Now now now,
Go on home and don't you and your sister moan.
Tell Martha not to moan.




O mary dont you weep lyrics

If I could I surely would
Stand on the rock where Moses stood
Pharoah's army got drownded
Oh, Mary, don't you weep

(Chorus:)
Oh, Mary, don't you weep, don't you mourn
Oh, Mary, don't you weep, don't you mourn
Pharoah's army got drownded
Oh, Mary, don't you weep

Moses stood on the Red Sea shore
Smotin' the water with a two by four
Pharoah's army...

The Lord told Moses what to do
To lead those Hebrew children through...

(Chorus)

God gave Noah the rainbow sign
No more water, but the fire next time...

Mary wore three links of chain
Every link was in freedom's name...

(Chorus)

When I get to Heaven, gonna sing & shout
Nobody up there to put me out!...

One of these mornings, it won't be long
You're gonna call my name but I'll be gone...

(Chorus)

One of these days, about 12 o'clock
This old world's gonna reel & rock....

One of these days, in the middle of the night
People gonna rise up and set things right...

(Chorus)

It was Moses, first proved the notion:
The world is safer with the army in the ocean...

(Chorus)

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What is the meaning of the song Mary don't you weep?

The song tells the Biblical story of Mary of Bethany and her distraught pleas to Jesus to raise her brother Lazarus from the dead. Other narratives relate to The Exodus and the Passage of the Red Sea, with the chorus proclaiming Pharaoh's army got drown-ded!, and to God's rainbow covenant to Noah after the Great Flood.

Who wrote the gospel song Mary don't you weep?

In 1957, Reverend Claude Jeter wrote an arrangement of “Mary, Don't You Weep” for his gospel ensemble, the Swan Silvertones. “Mary, Don't You Weep” had been around as a spiritual since before the civil war, and gospel quartets had performed it before, but Jeter's version took on a life of its own.