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Daddy Sang Bass (SIR 383)  Ron Hepden (Ria Hepden on back-up vocals)    (Johnny Cash)

 

OPENER - MIDDLE BREAK – CLOSER

FOUR LADIES, PROMENADE - you go once inside the ring

You’re gonna get back home and SWING there with your man

Join hands CIRCLE LEFT - you go moving ‘round the ring

ALLEMANDE the Corner - WEAVE THE RING
Daddy sang bass – Mama sang tenor

Me and little brother would join right in there
SWING the Girl and all will PROMENADE
One of these days and it won't be long. I'll rejoin them in a song
I'm gonna join the family circle at the Throne

                                                                                                                              

 

FIGURE

Have your HEADS PROMENADE travel HALF around that ring

Walk into the middle and SQUARE THRU count me FOUR

Four hands you do - go RIGHT AND LEFT THRU the outside two

PASS THRU – TRADE BY and then - SLIDE THRU

SQUARE THRU THREE hands – to the Corner Lady SWING

Swing your girl and all will PROMENADE

One of these days and it won't be long. I'll rejoin them in a song
I'm gonna join the family circle at the Throne

 

 

TAG

In the sky, Lord, in the sky – In the sky, Lord, in the sky 

 

 

Original Lyrics:

 

I remember when I was a lad, times were hard and things were bad.
But there's a silver lining behind every cloud.
Just poor people, that's all we were. Trying to make a living out of black land dirt.
We'd get together in a family circle singing loud. 

Daddy sang bass, Mama sang tenor. Me and little brother would join right in there.
Singing seems to help a troubled soul.
One of these days and it won't be long. I'll rejoin them in a song.
I'm gonna join the family circle at the Throne. 

Now I remember after work, Mama would call in all of us.

You could hear us singing for a country mile.
Now little brother has done gone on. But, I'll rejoin him in a song.
We'll be together again up yonder in a little while.

No, the circle won't be broken, By and by, Lord, by and by
There’s a better home awaiting - In the sky, Lord, in the sky
In the sky, Lord, in the sky”