Thanks, Masato: I figure there must be alternate versions. When my group does children's programs (which is recent for us,) it's nice to have some old spirituals that are easy to learn. Right now, we do Woke Up This Morning With My Mind Standing on Jesus (not the civil rights remake, "Staying on Freedom," although we do a couple of verses that way to talk about the use of spirituals in the civil rights movement. We also do Who Built The Ark? which has verses, but an easy chorus to learn, and the kids have a lot of fun answering "Brother Noahey!" It's a real interesting challenge trying to give little kids living in affluence an idea of what slavery, or even poverty was/is like. We Use I Got Shoes for that, which you also provided some versions of. A modern version of that for women would be, "I got Shoes, You Got shoes, I've got 68 pairs of shoes." When I was growing up, I had shoes. One pair a year.

Jerry