I don't know if all around the world what is called Gospel is the same but to me here in Canada it rings up the Spirituals of the Southern United States. I find the question ironic because these tunes were often drawn up by the slaves as codes for escaping from their dreaded life and the words such as Heaven for example were used as keys for the land of freedom in this case. So millions of people now sing these songs without recalling the original meaning of the words so slyly dissimulated in the themes of Heaven and Chariots and Lambs and so forth.

Celine