Sorry. I don't mean to hijack this train. But it just occurred to me that some folks may not be familiar with the "Move When The Spirit Says Move" song.

When I was a child, I learned the first verse of that song as:

We're gonna move when the spirit says move
move when the spirit says move
When the spirit says move
we're gonna move, Lord
We're gonna move when the spirit says move.

-snip-

When I use this song for recreational purposes, I leave the "Lord"
word in that song. But I guess the word 'child' or 'yes' can be subsituted for "Lord" .

Btw, the children I worked with also didn't know that song, which is further indication that African American spirituals are rarely sung in African American churches nowadays-at least in my area. Or maybe only a few of the children in the groups I facilitated regularly attended church...I think that both of these statements are true.

Furthermore, most of the schools that these children attended did not include in-school vocal music classes. And even if they did, the music teachers probably would have been prohibited from teaching spirituals.

What a sad state of affairs...