A life of song

Author

Ella Jenkins

Call Number

• COMPACT DISC CHILDREN (CEN)

Performers

Ella Jenkins.

Publication Information

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, p2011.

Physical Description

1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Children's music legend and the first lady of children's folk song, Ella Jenkins offers stories and songs that speak to her youthful years as an African-American child in a multicultural world.

Notes

Compact disc.

Contents

• Pick a bale of cotton
• One two three O'Leary
• Calling a square dance
• Black royalty
• Little Sally Walker
• Cotton-eyed Joe
• I want to be ready
• He's got the whole world in his hands
• Swing low, sweet chariot
• Rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham
• Standing in the need of prayer
• Amazing grace
• Somebody's talking about freedom
• Sadie complete
• Uncle flood and the blues
• Milk cow blues
• Summertime
• The cuckoo
• The farmer in the dell
• This is your year, children
• I'm on my way to Canaan land.