The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #25531   Message #299862
Posted By: SINSULL
18-Sep-00 - 09:17 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Who wrote and sings 'Little Moses'?
Subject: ADD 'Little Moses'? ^^^
Joan Baez or Judy Collins recorded it, I think:

Little Moses

Away by the water so blue
The ladies were winding their way
When Pharaoh's little daughter
Stepped down to the water
To bathe in the cool of the day
And before it was dark
She looked in the ark
And found sweet infant was there
And before it was dark
She looked in the ark
And found sweet infant was there.

And away from the water so blue
She carried that beautiful child
To his tender mother,
His sister and brother
Little Moses looked happy and smiled.
And she called him her own
Her beautiful son
And sent for a nurse that was near
And she called him her own
Her beautiful son
And sent for a nurse that was near.

And away by the sea that was red, so red
Moses servant of God
Before him subsided
The seas were divided
When upwards he lifted his rod
And the Jews safely crossed
While Pharaoh's host
Was drowned in the water and lost
And the Jews safely crossed
While Pharaoh's host
Was drowned in the water and lost

And away by the mountain so high
The last one that he ever did see
With Israel victorious
His hopes were most glorious
Someday will Jordan be free?
When his spirit did cease
He departed in peace
And rested in the heavens above
When his spirit did cease
He departed in peace
And rested in the heavens above.

Done from memory. I will have to check on accuracy. There is a rather raunchy parody of this in the DT.
Mary
Corrected horse to host. ^^^