Best-loved Negro Spirituals: Complete Lyrics to 178 Songs of FaithNegro spirituals were profoundly influenced both by the African origins of the singers and by the nature of slavery itself. Music permeated every part of African culture from birth to death, and continued to have a powerful, healing role among the people brought to America against their will. The influence of African music on spirituals can be seen in the many elements they have in common, as well as in a diversity that reflects individual tribal influences. Of these songs, famed scholar and collector Natalie Curtis-Burlin wrote, "The Negro spirituals rank with the great folk-music of the world, and are among the loveliest of chanted prayers." |
Contents
A Great CampMeeting in | 1 |
C | 7 |
Done Found My Lost Sheep | 13 |
Gonna Shout All Over Gods Heaven | 25 |
He Never Said a Mumblin Word | 31 |
In the Mansions Above | 41 |
See Go Down | 58 |
Over the Crossing | 64 |
Ride On King Jesus 3rd version Theres No Hiding Place Down | 84 |
Feel Like a Motherless Were You There When They | 90 |
Swing Low Sweet Chariot | 96 |