The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #24379 Message #631287
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
19-Jan-02 - 06:04 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Deep River (Spiritual)
Subject: RE: Deep River or Steal Away?
Jordan River in Utah, named by the Latter Day Saints. Also one in Nova Scotia, named after a man. In the southern Negro mind of the 19C, the Jordan River of the spirituals took on the characteristics of whatever larger river was nearby.