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Thread #99117 Message #2894724
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
26-Apr-10 - 02:34 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: I Am Bound for the Land of Canaan
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Sweet Canaan (spiritual)
As noted above, Sweet Canaan, no. 112 of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, essentially has the lyrics posted by Goose Gander. The Jubilee version posted for clarity:
Lyr. Add: Sweet Canaan Fisk Jubilee Singers
Oh, the land I am bound for, Sweet Canaan's happy land I am bound for, Sweet Canaan's happy land I am bound for, Pray give me your right hand.
Oh, my brother, did you come for to help me? Oh, my brother, did you come for to help me? Oh, my brother, did you come for to help me? Pray give me your right hand.
Oh, my sister, did you come for to help me? Oh, my sister, did you come for to help me? Oh, my sister, did you come for to help me? Pray give me your right hand.
With musical score. No. 112, J. B. T. Marsh, The Story of the Jubilee Singers with Their Songs, Houghton Mifflin, 1880s. (Most of these were printed originally in the 1870s).