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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
BSeed	Mary don't you weep--meaning (69* d)	RE: Mary don't you weep--meaning	02 Dec 98
I don't know that Mary has to be Virgin Mary--thers have borne the name. The speaker in the song may be telling a slave named Mary that, like Pharaoh's army, her oppressors will be overcome. The parallel references are many: the spiritual "Go Down Moses" and Harriet Tubman's appelation as "the Moses of her people" being among them. --seed

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