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Thread #3744   Message #2500505
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
22-Nov-08 - 11:51 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Go Tell It on the Mountain
Subject: RE: DT Attribution & Minor Corrections PermaThread
Joe, the message you substituted has errors in attribution.
The two verses of "Go Tell It on the Mountain" are not in "original edition by Thomas P. Fenner" but in: Hampton Institute and Fenner, 1909 and 1924, "Religious Folk-Songs of the Negro as Sung by the Hampton Students," p. not known (book not seen). Fenner was long dead.
The song again appeared in the revision, R. Nathaniel Dett, 1927, "Religious Folk-Songs of the Negro as Sung at Hampton Institute" (AMS reprint 1972-1973 of the 1927 Dett edition. "Go Tell it on the Mountain" is on p. 78, not p. 174 ("Bright Sparkles in de Churchyard") and again in the Appendix; III, of the 1927 edition.