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Appendix of Negro Songs
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Black Sacred Music (1995) 9 (1-2): 243–338.
Published: 01 September 1995
...' John Henry, Dis ol' hammer kill' John Henry, Dis ol' hammer won't kill me. Dis ol' shovel buried John Henry, (3x) Dis ol' shovel won't bury me. Lay mah head on de railroad track, (3x) Train come along, snatch it back. Dis 01' Hammer Kill' fohn Henry Rests represent hammer-falls. @1 &'1, n J1 Ji. Il J...
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Music Index
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Black Sacred Music (1995) 9 (1-2): 347–350.
Published: 01 September 1995
... Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Music Index "A New Bell," 309-11 "A Woman Is Born for Trouble;' 140 Abyssinia, 46 "Ah Got Heb'm in Mah View," 304-5 "Ah'm a Union Man," 130 - 31 "Ah'm Gonna Mek Mah Burden Easy;' 281-82 "Ah'm Prayin' on Mah Way," 304 "All My Sins Done Taken Away...
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Chapter 6. Characteristics
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Black Sacred Music (1995) 9 (1-2): 104–146.
Published: 01 September 1995
... worl' alone, I heard of a city called Heaven, I'm trying to make it mah home. Ev'y time I feel de Spirit movin' in mah heart I will pray. I been in de storm so long Give me little time to pray. What of the great songs of Christ's suffering-passion spirituals? They are concerned entirely with the ideas...
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Chapter 5. Imagery and Nature of the Work Song
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Black Sacred Music (1995) 9 (1-2): 75–103.
Published: 01 September 1995
... admits in the words of the song: Ah got scar'd At Smoky Mountain, 'Cause mah hammer Wrecked de train. The road was made for John Henry, and John Henry was made for the road. The first job he received was given to him somewhere between Macon and Savannah. The section gang was laying rails when John Henry...
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Chapter 4. The Rise of the Work Songs
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Black Sacred Music (1995) 9 (1-2): 66–74.
Published: 01 September 1995
... patience, this song is saying. It burns slowly and withholds the explosion as long as it can. However, just before the explosion, it stops its sputtering, complaining: "Ef I had mah weight in line/ I'd whip dis cap'm / Twell his clothes start fryin' ." A mule driver uses his line in his right hand to flog...
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A Bibliography of Sacred Music held by The Black Music Archive
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Black Sacred Music (1987) 1 (1): 69–81.
Published: 01 March 1987
... of My Father). Xerox MS . SATB with Solo Voice and Piano. - - - , arr. "Rock-a-Mah Soul." Spiritual. SATB and Piano. - - - , arr. "Show Me Thy Way." Spiritual. SATB with Solo Voice and Piano. - - - , arr. "What a Friend We Have in Jesus." Xerox MS. SATB with Solo Voice and Piano. Gillum, Ruth, arr...
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Chapter 7. “De Stars in de Elements”
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Black Sacred Music (1995) 9 (1-2): 147–161.
Published: 01 September 1995
... Version 0, hear me Jesus, hear me, Hear me ef yo' please. Ef yo' don't hear me standin' I'll fall down on mah knees. Perry's Version Dere's people, dey don't like me 'Cause I'm a union man Go'n' stay in line wid de union Ef I die wid my card in my han'. This is a very popular jubilee among the mining-camp...
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The Blues: A Secular Spiritual
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Black Sacred Music (1992) 6 (1): 68–97.
Published: 01 March 1992
... of the present. It was the freedom to move; and many blacks "got on board," expressing their liberated being. Some day ah'm gonna lay down dis heavy load, Gonna grab me a train, Gonna clam aboh'd. Gonna go up No'th, Gonna ease mah pain, Yessuh, Lord, gonna catch dat train. Every aspect of black life...