Mudcat Café message #2500319

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Thread #3744 Message #2500319
Posted By: Joe Offer
22-Nov-08 - 05:56 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Go Tell It on the Mountain
Subject: RE: Origins: Go Tell It on the Mountain

The Traditional Ballad Index says the song was in the 1907 repertoire of the Fisk Jubilee Singers. I don't see the song in my copy of The Story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers (with their songs, by J.B.T. Marsh (Boston: Houghton, Osgood, and Company, 1880). The Marsh book has 112 songs, but not "Mountain."
I wonder where the Ballad Index got its information about the 1907 repertoire.

-Joe-