8 thoughts on “ Man Going Around Talking Names ”

1. There is an old black gospel song from the American South, most often sung to the driving beat of a blues guitar, which includes the following lyrics: There's a man going around taking names. There's a man going around taking names. He took my father's name, And he left my heart in pain. There's a man going around taking names.

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2. Jan 08,  · The "man going round taking names" has double meaning. When the man comes around. Armageddon is a location in Israel, and a site of a huge battle that will take place before Christ returns to earth. Shalom is a Hebrew word that means peace. Shalam is a variation that probably means the same thing. There will be no peace until Jesus returns.

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3. When the man comes around? Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers. One hundred million angels singing. Multitudes are marching to the big kettledrum. Voices calling and voices crying Some are born and some are dying. It's Alpha and Omega's kingdom come. And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree The virgins are all trimming their wicks.

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4. There's a man going 'round taking names. 2. There's a man going 'round taking names (taking names) There's a man going 'round taking names (taking names) He's been taking my mother's name and he left my heart in vain There's a man going 'round taking names. 3. There's a man going 'round taking names (taking names).

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5. In the song, the "man going around taking names" is a metaphor, of course, for all that menaces human relationships and life -- most prominently, the slave trader and, finally, death itself. And it is a fascinating image for potential evil, this idea of "taking names." Even school children can identify with it.

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6. Nov 13,  · A man going around taking names And he decides who to free and who to blame. Everybody won't be treated all the same. There'll be a golden ladder reaching down. When the Man comes around. My late teenage years were not cheery times. Certain events in my life had drastically altered the foundations on which my life had been chrisexewveleapur.birdpburulapincrabernibitabasci.infoinfo: 63K.

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7. There's a man going 'round taking names (taking names) He's been taking my father's name and he left my heart in vain There's a man going 'round taking names. Submit Corrections. Writer(s): Mungo Jerry, Ray Dorset. AZLyrics. M. Mungo Jerry Lyrics. album: "You Don't Have To Be In The Army" ().

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8. There's a Man Going Round Taking Names Lyrics: There's a man going 'round taking names / There's a man going 'round taking names / He's been taking my father's name / An' he left my heart in vain.

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