Mudcat Café message #1689935

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Thread #89547 Message #1689935
Posted By: Abby Sale
10-Mar-06 - 08:28 AM
Thread Name: happy? - Mar 10 (Harriet Tubman)
Subject: happy? - Mar 10 (Harriet Tubman)

Harriet Tubman (abolitionist, ex-slave)
died 3/10/1913
(born circa 1821)


          One night I dreamed I was in slav'ry.
          'Bout eighteen fifty was the time.
          Sorrow was the only sign,
  
          Nothing aroung to ease me mind.
          Out of the night appeared a lady
          Leading a distant pilgrim band
  
                  "Harriet Tubman," by Walter Robinson © 1978; Seeger, Carry It On; 
  
  ALSO: She is said (per 2nd People's Songbook) to have used for the Underground Railroad the following:
  
          CHO:    Wade in the water.
                  Wade in the water, children.
                  Wade in the water.
                  God's gonna trouble the water.
  
                          "Wade in the Water"
  
  ALSO:   Come now and stand around my deathbed
          And I will sing some spirit songs
          I'm my way to my greater union
          Now my ninety-three years are gone.
  
  
                  "The Ballad of Harriet Tubman," by Woody Guthrie