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Sheet Music

The treasury of Negro spirituals

Call Number

  • M 784.4 C444 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Emerson Books, 1963, c1959.

Physical Description

125 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Notes

Contains 30 well-known spirituals, arr. for voice and piano, and 6 modern compositions, 2 of which are arr. for male quartet.

Contents

  • A little more faith in Jesus
  • Ain't goin' to study war no more
  • Balm in Gilead
  • By an' by
  • Deep river
  • De Gospel train
  • Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel
  • Dry bones
  • Ev'rybody got to die
  • Ev'ry time I feel de spirit
  • Give me Jesus
  • Go down, Moses
  • He never said a mumbalin' word
  • He's jus' de same today
  • I couldn't hear nobody pray
  • I got a home in-a dat rock
  • I got a robe
  • I want to be a Christian in my heart
  • I want to be ready
  • Joshua fight de battle ob Jericho
  • Listen to de lam's.
  • (cont.) Little David, play on your harp
  • My Lord, wha a morning
  • My soul is a witness for y Lord
  • Noboy knows de trouble I see
  • Oh, wasn't that a wide river
  • O Peter, go ring-a dem bell s-- Rol, Jordan, roll
  • Sinner, please don't let dis harvest pass
  • Somebody's knocking at your door
  • Standin' in de need of prayer
  • Steal away
  • Swing low, sweet chariot
  • The Lord's prayer
  • Were your there
  • Be still and listen
  • Ol' man Devil gotta go some
  • Restitution
  • Ride on, King Jesus
  • Roll away that stone
  • The glow within
  • Trouble.

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