For anyone who knows enough music to set midi's (the bare bones), the sheet music for these songs on the Hampton site is invaluable, since it was set in print in 1874. Some of these songs I've never heard. I wish I had the recordings of the Fisk and Hampton singers, I don't know how many are still available. One more comment- the dialect is called Negro, but the uneducated whites also used many of these pronounciations, e. g. gwine and jine. Misguided attempts to politically sanitize the language overlook this. Of course, even now the terminal "g" on many words is not always pronounced. I think I usually say goin' unless I am speaking formally.