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Thread #41800   Message #608107
Posted By: GUEST
11-Dec-01 - 08:56 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: 'Chariot' Spirituals
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'CHARIOT' SPIRITUALS
LOW DOWN CHARIOT AND LET ME RIDE also has been published in "Honey and the Rock, the Ruby Pickins Tartt Collection of Religious Folk Songs from Sumter County, Alabama," ed. Olivia and Jack Solomon, p. 100-101. Dock Reed recorded the text for the Lomax Library of Congress Recordings, and Vera Hall and Dock Reed sang it for the Courlander recordings in 1950. Folkways discs FA 2038 and FE4473.
Added verses here: Father, sister, and brother done rid...