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Thread #2864   Message #117128
Posted By: Susan A-R
23-Sep-99 - 10:46 PM
Thread Name: Songs on, or about slavery
Subject: RE: ? Songs on, or about slavery?
There's an add-on verse to Amazing Grace, and when last I requested information on who wrote it, I got about four different answers. It's a great verse though

Shall we be wafted to the skies
On flow'ry beds of ease
While others strive to win the prize
And sail on bloody seas.

I also am partial to the Henry Clay Work material. Have never gotten up the nerve to sing Kingdom Coming, but it is an interesting perspective. We do Wake Nicodemus, and it's lovely.

I also think of all of those spirituals that were underground railway songs: Steal Away, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, was Deep River also one?

And isn't there some song from the perspective of a black regiment, the something Arkensas, to the tune of the Battle Hymn? And what is the deal with We are Coming from the Cotton Fields?

Susan A-R