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Thread #38161   Message #535387
Posted By: masato sakurai
25-Aug-01 - 11:24 PM
Thread Name: ADD: No More Auction Block / Many Thousands Gone
Subject: ADD: MANY THOUSAND GO
This spiritual was, I'm sure, first recorded with music in William Francis Allen et al., Slave Songs of the United States (1867) as "Many Thousand Go". The whole book is now online here in Documenting the American South. The lyrics in this book (p. 48) are:

No more peck o' corn for me,
No more, no more;
No more peck o' corn for me,
Many tousand go.

No more driver's lash for me.

No more pint o' salt for me.

No more hundred lash for me.

No more mistress' call for me.