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Sheet Music

Slave songs

Call Number

  • R 784.4 S58.8 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Chelsea House Publishers, [1993], c1994.

Physical Description

1 score (64 p.) : ill. ; 32 cm.

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

  • Nobody knows the trouble I see
  • I am a-trouble in the mind
  • Darling Nellie Gray
  • I can't stay behind
  • Go in the wilderness
  • Blow your trumpet, Gabriel
  • Praise, member
  • Go down, Moses
  • Who laid de rail?
  • Wade in the water
  • Jim along Josey
  • Jump Jim Crow
  • The blue-tail fly
  • Ole Zip Coon
  • Heave away
  • All the pretty little horses
  • Michael, row the boat ashore
  • I am sold and going to Georgia
  • Charleston gals
  • Raise a ruckus tonight
  • Nat Turner
  • Escape from slavery of Henry Box Brown
  • Harriet Tubman's ballad
  • Follow the drinking gourd
  • Many thousand gone
  • I want to go home
  • Some valiant soldier
  • Slavery chain done broke at last.

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