I am a poor pilgrim of sorrow, Cast out in this wide world to roam; I have no promise of tomorrow, I've started to make heaven my home. I know I'm weak and unworthy; My heart is so prone to sin, But Jesus the Savior almighty Has promised to take me in. My mother has reached the bright glory, My father is still wondering in sin, My brothers and sisters won't know me Because I'm trying to get in When friends and relations forsake me When trouble rolls round me so high I think of the kind words of Jesus; "Poor pilgrim, I'm always nigh."

The last time I heard him sing was 30 years ago, but like so many other old Baptist songs I've heard you never forget. When I saw the movie "faster" I recognized him Immediately and he probably doesn't know it was used for a move. The Smithsonian people came to eastern Ky back in the late 70's taping our music believing it would die away, guess what, it hasn't. His name is Kenny Preece from Middle Fork United Baptist Church.

we still sing like this at my church in south eastern ky we still sing this hynm to

@andreawheatley5528

5 жыл бұрын

Yes Sir, we do.

@andreawheatley5528

5 жыл бұрын

Little Robinson Creek ORB

@enclave-2226

4 жыл бұрын

Same here

This music is still the norm for the Old Regulars back in Eastern Kentucky my childhood home in Floyd County. So many memories as I listen to this music.

@jleedy21

3 жыл бұрын

No books. It’s was done with the caller the the song repeated back, most likely because of so many that couldn’t read??But, beautiful!!

@sincerrabenson509

2 жыл бұрын

Lining out or hymn lining, called precenting the line in Scotland, is a form of a cappella hymn-singing or hymnody in which a leader, often called the clerk or precentor, gives each line of a hymn tune as it is to be sung, usually in a chanted form giving or suggesting the tune. It can be considered a form of call and response. First referred to as "the old way of singing" in eighteenth-century Britain, it has influenced twentieth century popular music singing styles.[1] In 1644, the Westminster Assembly outlined its usage in English churches "for the present, where many in the congregation cannot read".[1] Lining out spread rapidly to the Scottish churches where it has persisted longest in Britain.[1] It has survived to the present day among some communities and contexts, including the Gaelic psalmody on Lewis in Scotland, the Old Regular Baptists of the southern Appalachians in the United States, and for informal worship in many African American congregations.

@starofdabloc

2 жыл бұрын

This song is literally a African American Gospel song made by a African American man named Charles Albert Tindley in a Black Baptist Church in the United States he was from Maryland Baltimore and also call and response goes back to the continent of Africa thousands of years ago what are you talking about?

@richardjones6024

2 жыл бұрын

@@starofdabloc Is it not possible that...I don't know maybe in this vast world different cultures may develop similar types of singing independently? Both places had it on their own before it reached America.

@starofdabloc

2 жыл бұрын

@@richardjones6024 that’s true but when it CAME to the U.S. then you have to look at where the song originated from and who sung it first

Takes me back to Hazard Kentucky as a little girl, sitting next to my 90 year old granny who lived in the back hollers of south eastern Kentucky her whole life, holding her hand in praising Jesus with our whole family. I love this sound. God bless the folks that keep this music alive! I miss you Granny Donna Hale Amburgey- January 1 1912 - March 2003 😇

I was raised up with this singing back home in Kentucky.. I love the old regular baptist church from my home when i listen to this how i long to go home.. If you have never heard this kind of singing before and don't understand it just close your eyes and listen it will grab deep down in your soul and bring tears to your eyes.. You can feel the spirit all over your soul... How i love the lord all mighty.. I am truly blessed to come across this..

@Johnatanoliveira777

3 ай бұрын

I'm from Brazil and I can only understand a little of your language. I did what you said, I closed my eyes, my body shivered and my eyes filled with tears, I'm a Christian here, but this song spoke directly to my soul and so did your comment, thank you and God bless you.

29 year old from NC, my grandparents are primitive Baptist and I feel like I'm 6 years old sitting in their church when j hear this

Old regular Baptist back home in floyd co still sing this way. This make me miss my home 😢

Wow, I can feel the Holy Spirit in my house while I'm listening to this. God Bless.

I loved hearing my daddy, grandpa, and uncles singing these songs when I was a little girl :) "I miss you daddy"!!!

This takes me back to my child hood my grandpa and grandma took me to cold springs old regular Baptist I do not care for the other churches this was how I was raised up I love to listen it's a little piece of heaven for me I love the old hymns

Thank you very much - this is deep. Very very deep. Love it. Reminds me of that old school gospel from back in the day

Yes I have many memories as a child at Old Regular Baptist church services hearing the church sing these and the big ole Baptist potluck dinners after service in the basement. Most all those folks I remember are gone now.

I agree with EverythingZen, it carries many of the same antiphonal and tonal characteristics of Byzantine sounds. And even though it is evidently emotive, it still resounds with a more sober base in the soul. Incredibly BA

It touches the deepest part of the soul.

How have I been unaware of this type of music for so long?! Shut off your radios! THIS is amazing!!!

Wow...the precentor sounds like Ralph Stanley. This singing gives me goosebumps.

@andreawheatley5528

2 жыл бұрын

Ralph Stanley sang line singing a lot, he’s from Virginia with the same customs.

Makes my heart think of my granddad in Grundy Virginia...many missed years ago.

@yourboyskeeter

7 ай бұрын

Always made me think of going to church over in Haysi with my grandparents. Always gonna be something about this kind of singing to stick with me.

Some of my fondest memories are of playing at the feet of my grandmother while she worked in the kitchen. Raised around the Clinch Mountain in East Tennessee, she sang like this.

I was born in Louisville Ky but my grandparents lived in Knott co/eastern Ky. Went to visit them as a child one summer and will never forget the sound of the singing when I went to church with them. At first it frightened me, then it entered into my spirit removing the fear. It was the most powerful sound I had ever heard. I crave it sometimes. Maybe it’s the truth I seek and I feel it so deeply in this singing.

As a native of Eastern Kentucky, as an Orthodox Christian and having some Celt in my bloodlines...I SO agree with your alls observations on the Byzantine and Celtic feel to this...another direction, too...have you listened to the Christian chants out of Georgia and Armenia...those in the Caucacus have a sound similar to these Old Regular Baptist hymns...of which I dearly love...and the people...if I had such Faith.

@tpp5151

Жыл бұрын

I was raised Baptist but have since become Roman Catholic. I feel this music in my soul. We are all pilgrims in this world I hope God forgives me.

Floyd county and Knott county descendant here. This touches and comforts my heart. I miss my ancestors and praise the Lord for the blessed time and teachings from them all. Especially my Granddaddy Abner Mack McCloud. I'll see you soon, Pappy. We'll catch up on so much.

Priceless

this is called line singing! Its beautifully done!

This is SO powerful!...as I wrote EverythingZen...as a native of Southern Appalachia, having some Celt in my lineage...and being an Orthodox Christian...this is SO familiar...I am so much at home listening to this!...it is a trip to times past...and reflects possibly a 'collective memory' in the chanting and singing of hymns within Christendom...a sound to ancient Christianity.

We still sing like this at my church today

I remember hearing this song at a funeral when I was seven years old. That lined-out singing scared the hell out of me. It's a shame Pentecostal Evangelicals have come to dominate Christianity with it's tambourine banging and fake miracles.

@MrPisster

3 жыл бұрын

It is sad. This is so heart felt it's chilling. No pretense.

Thanks for posting this. What a haunting song...

its pain with a promise in the end. thanks for the post.

I heard this music before I was born and growing up and I still do. And I love to sing it. If you don’t understand, well then you don’t understand. Praise his holy name. I don’t think he’ll mind.

Brother Gillis Reddy is lining this song. He does it so beautifully.

I’m grateful you have comments turned on. It’s great to learn more. Thank you.

So thankful to have grown up in the ORB 🙂

This is my Grandfather ID Back leading the hymn, he preached 54 years, proud to be his grandson.

@jughead8988

5 жыл бұрын

I know ID, he was a great man! He was like i another grandpa to me when i was a kid. My pops preached with for many a year at blackie.

@RB-wu5rz

2 жыл бұрын

ID Back was my daddy’s uncle. My great grandmother was Ruth Back.

If someone put a rising slow march beat behind this it would be on the radio next month, no doubt in my mind.

Amazing...love this!

Beautiful. No other words than beautiful and wounderful.

Beautiful, God how i love this.

Thanks for posting this!

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on us.

just amazing

Amazing - and similar to 'psalming out' in the outer Hebrides (Scotland)£. They say the immigrants brought that kind of worship with them to the USA.

Beautiful! An aesthetic Journey!

Beautul and inspiring.

The hymnography out of Georgia is some of my favorite. I adore 'Thou art the Vine" and the Cherubic Hymn. You are right, that there is a striking similarity between sound of religious Christian singing from the Caucasus and the Old Regular Baptists' sound.

The 'faster' movie starring dwayne johnson led me to this. This is used in the opening scene

@nursedeserter So true, I recall many an Association 45 or 50 years ago where I'd take a nap outside while listening to the singing, it's the most relaxing sound in the world to me, and how may of my relatives spent their last moments on this earth with other relatives and/or members singing with them at their bedside.

this is excellent even without knowing what thy're saying it touches me deeply

ooh - killer song in the regular baptist mode. raw, primal, intense stuff whether you're interested in religion or not. thanks for posting.

You're quite right. It's very like the Gaelic psalm-singing from the Hebrides.

This hymn is thought to have been inspired by a folk song that originated in England called "The Green Mossy Banks of the Lea" and it in turn might have inspired "Man of Constant Sorrow." Funny how these things go around.

This is the music that I knew when I was a tiny child. The first time I listened to this CD I wept like a baby. It was like water on dry ground -- or for a thirsty soul -- but I hadn't realized that I was thirsty. I hope the Smithsonian does a 3rd CD.

wow.....

i remember them using this song in the begining of "Faster"

O.o i remember singing this in chorus in eighth grade wow

It is Beautiful;however, there are still churches and believers who are carrying the torch for our Savior. Like most of the commenter, I grew up in the United Baptist Church but am a member of the Old Regulars today here in Central Florida. We still line our songs here and carry on with the orders of the Baptist church just like our grandparents. Sure there are some "Beachy Baptist" in our congregation; however, you have that anywhere.

I Miss you Mamaw

My Great Grandma's church singz this song all tha time, shit soundz mad sad

Have to smile at some of the speculation about the 'origins' of this type of music. The song is clearly an antiphon based round a call and response to the congregation. It is a type of Christian music that goes back to the earliest centuries of the Church and you can hear it in Gregorian chants amongst other types of Church singing.

@fuckcensorshipforeal

8 жыл бұрын

+aminorchacha Surely there's as much or more black influence as plain chant?

@morganacres9360

8 жыл бұрын

+fuckcensorshipforeal what you have to remember is that it was a two way thing! the black workers were just as influenced by the white church music as the whites were by their rhythmic call and response. its often hard to work out the origins of all this music tho

@TTuoTT

7 жыл бұрын

Since this music is about suffering in America, black influence will often be pre-dominant, as no-one has suffered more than blacks in America.

@hollynonya6991

Жыл бұрын

@@fuckcensorshipforeal it's sounds the exact same in Scottish Gaelic Psalms lining out

@hollynonya6991

Жыл бұрын

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What church is this? My mommy's was up Mousie Ky.

i came here from the movie Faster

@bethanydavis9023

4 жыл бұрын

The Walking Dead game sountrack

This song sounds like an indian kind! :) and it is very cool!

The movie, Faster brought me here

Wow! This is so similar to Hebridean 'psalming out' that it must have been transported from there to here. Love it, it has real spirit.

Sounds so much like Ralph Stanley

Tells Wife 🗣I wont this song to be song at my funeral !! Renind me of my grannys church😥

@broman86 Yes sir! It gave me chills up the spine when I heard it with Clint Mansell's music in the background. What a film! And what a soundtrack. One of the best of the year. Clearly underrated!

This reminds me a lot of byzantine chant with a Celtic twist.

@andreawheatley5528

2 жыл бұрын

We brought it with us from Old England and Scott’s and Irish. Many years ago, my Kentucky family has been here for over 600 years. My family still attend the Old Regular Babtist Church in Robinson Creek, Kentucky.

that makes sense, Appalachia (where this music mostly resides) is filled with people of scotch-Irish ancestry

@hollynonya6991

Жыл бұрын

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Where can I find more songs and a song book of the old regular baptist my grandfather was a preacher

@the32712

8 жыл бұрын

+Larry Gonzales "The Sweet Songster" is one of the books that Old Regular Baptists sing out of. You can probably find them at a local university's library, or you may be able to find the text online.

@enochhagerman2915

6 жыл бұрын

We have some books for sale please contact me

I'm from Vietnam, and i have to say, kinda weird to listen to this form of music because is sounded strangely like a Buddhist chant of Khmer people in my country.

These are called 'Old 100's" Slaves would sing these....they are still sung today in the black church.

Anyone here from seeing Faster with Dwayne Johnson and Billy Bob Thornton?

It is like to ’Minyo’ that folk music of Tohoku region.

Songs of the coalfields of southwest VA HOME

This is Gillis Reedy calling this out.

that's a beautiful comment, 98slabrider.

Someone 2019?

@Neopolitan_Illusion

4 жыл бұрын

I heard this from Telltale's TWD, matched the theme perfectly

@MrVin216

4 жыл бұрын

2020 baby

🙂

@barretpaige14 Preacher, Alistair Begg once said he heard this kind of music in his church as a boy. So we know this music goes back at least to Scotland & was probably carried over here by immigrants moving to Appalachia. If you listen to the song on Oh Brother Where Art Thou when the black gentlemen are digging a grave for Everett, Pete & Delmar; they are singing this style. Some scholars believe that this style was concurrent w/ western African songs during slavery so there was a crossover.

@starofdabloc

2 жыл бұрын

No you got it from the African American Black Baptists that created this song and many other Baptist songs which then can be traced back to African countries and probably some Scottish/Irish

@YourBestNeighbor7

4 күн бұрын

@@starofdabloc no

Vengo de la pelicula de sed de venganza😂😅

@broman86 Really? Did you notice the religous symbolism throughout the film? Who in survives the "fatal" wound in the back of the head in the Bible? How many points did his wound have? Who saves his "human" side? I think you should take a look at the film from a different angle. No offense brother. Just offering my opinion. This is a film you have to read between the lines. Cheers mate.

Christ is the ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN.

DEVIL INDA FLESH

i was brought here by teh moive faster....who else?

Came here from the movie faster

@generalkuze6893

5 жыл бұрын

me too man

@generalkuze6893

5 жыл бұрын

i love the movie Faster

@generalkuze6893

5 жыл бұрын

and u?

Nobodys mentioned Man Of Constant Sorrow yet...

@dadshoe7607

5 жыл бұрын

Kyle Brake lol

@dierdriu

10 ай бұрын

Good

"Where's the exit?"

@flea8th

6 жыл бұрын

please use it

@pabloluque2716

5 жыл бұрын

Underrated movie

@satan31337

5 жыл бұрын

Wheres the exit

Gaelic psalms meets the 'songs of the fields' sung by the slaves.I dont want to offend anybody but thats exactly what this pilgrim song sounds like to me.

Who came here from the devil all the time?

Anyone here from the walking dead?

@jamesgordon9825

2 жыл бұрын

Me

the origins sound african, they are singing on a pentatonic scale in a way that is identical to african spirituals. of course there is influence from it .... duh.

@andreawheatley5528

5 жыл бұрын

It's from the UK, we brought it over with us, hundreds of years ago. Just saying, seeing a lot of people with various opinions, this is my family's kind of singing, in the hills of eastern Kentucky, and it's called Old Regular Babtist singing.

@AV1611BibleBelievingJimmy

5 жыл бұрын

@@andreawheatley5528 No, you don't get it. We was kangs. We need to praise and hail the almighty black man and forsake all our history and heritage. Get with the times, you bigot!!!

@andreawheatley5528

5 жыл бұрын

@@AV1611BibleBelievingJimmy Who do you think you are? Calling me a bigot. Keyboard Warrior are you? Lol

@starofdabloc

2 жыл бұрын

@@andreawheatley5528 This is a Black Baptist Church song made/created by a Black man in the United States named Charles Albert Tindley what are you talking about?

@YourBestNeighbor7

4 күн бұрын

@@starofdabloc Tindley's version sounds nothing like this as his version is in G Major, wth are you talking about lmao