Up Above My Head

Up Above My Head

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Name = Up Above My Head


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"Up Above My Head" is a Gospel song, originally recorded in the 1940s by Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight as a duo.

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The song is formed in the traditional call and response format, with Tharpe singing a short line followed by Knight's "response" of the same line. There are seven lines (save responses) in each verse--the first six in call and response, and the seventh sung in unison.

Lyrics

"Up above my head ("up above my head")
I hear music in the air ("I hear music in the air")
Up above my head ("up above my head")
I hear music in the air ("I hear music in the air")
Up above my head ("up above my head")
I hear music in the air ("I hear music in the air")
I really do believe, I really do believe there's a Heaven somewhere."

Each additional verse is the same as the first, the word "music" replaced with another word (such as "singing," "shouting," et cetera). In the years following the song's introduction many have added more replacement words, which extend the song's length.

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