- Written by
- [Traditional]
- Publication date
- 1907
- Language
- English
- Comments
- aka "All God's Chillun (Children) Got Wings (Shoes/Harps/Robes)" or "I Got Shoes". Traditional African-American spiritual from the 1800s first published in 1907 as "Going to Shout All over God's Heav'n". Verse one has "robes", verse two has wings, verse three has "harps" and verse four has "shoes". Depending on the verse ordering it can be named accordingly. It was first recorded by the Fisk Jubilee Singers in 1909 as "Shout All over God's Heaven" (which is also part of the verse one lyrics). In 1923, Eugene O'Neill wrote a play called "All God's Chillun Got Wings" which was inspired by this spiritual. Paul Robeson sang the title song in the 1924 premiere. Thereafter, the song was typically only known by "All God's Chillun Got Wings (or Shoes)". In 1925, the song was arranged into "I Got Shoes", which eventually evolved into a 1962 gospel song by Johnny Cash of the same name.
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Versions
Going to Shout All over God's Heav'n written by [Traditional] English
Title | Performer | Release date | Info | ||
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Shout All over God's Heaven | Fisk University Jubilee Quartet | February 1910 | First recording on December 8, 1909 First release |
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Heav'n, Heav'n | Marian Anderson | September 1924 | |||
Going to Shout All over God's Heaven | Louis Armstrong with The Decca Mixed Chorus directed by Lyn Murray | 1938 | |||
All God's Chillun Got Shoes | The Charioteers | October 1939 | |||
Gonna Shout All over God's Heaven | The Southernaires | 1939 | |||
Walk over God's Heaven | Mahalia Jackson & The Falls-Jones Ensemble | December 27, 1954 | |||
Gonna Shout All over God's Heaven | Jack Teagarden | May 1957 | |||
All God's Children Got Shoes | Willie Wright [US1] | 1958 | |||
I Got Shoes | The Jordanaires | February 1960 | |||
All God's Children Got Shoes | Gogi Grant | 1960 | Unverified | ||
I Got Shoes | Johnny Cash | June 1962 | |||
I Got Shoes | The Robert Shaw Chorale | 1964 | |||
Where the Sun Will Never Go Down | Chanticleer | 1990 | A cappella Live Medley |
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Walk Over God's Heaven | Alison Krauss & The Cox Family | 1994 | Unverified | ||
All God's Children Got Shoes | Dayan Kai | 2012 |
Going to Shout All over God's Heav'n written by [Traditional] instrumental