NEGRO SPRTUALS Arranged for Solo Voice by H T BURLEGH Ain't Goin' to Study War No Mo' Two keys Balmin Gilead Two keys Behold That Star Two keys By An' By Two keys Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray Two keys De Blin' Man Stood on De Road An' Cried T'uo keys De Gospel Train Two keys Deep River Three keys Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel One key Don't Be Weary Traveler Tuo keys Don't You Weep When 'm Gone One key Ev'ry Time Feel the Spirit T'u:o keys Give Me Jesus Two keys Go Down in the Lonesome Valley Three keys Go Down Moses T'u o keys Go Tell t On De Mountains One key Hard Trials One key Hear de Lambs acryin' One key Heav'n Heav'n T'u io keys He's Just De Same Today Two keys Don't Feel NoWays Tired One key Got A Home n ADat Rock Two keys Know De Lord's Laid His Hands On Me 't'u» keys Stood On De Ribber Db Jerdon T'u o keys 've Been n De Storm So Long One Key Want To Be Ready One key John's Gone Down On De sland T'u io keys Joshua Fit De Battle Db Jericho One Key Let Us Cheer The Weary Traveler Tl'{) keys Little David Play on Your Harp Tuo keys My Lord What A Morning Tuo keys My Way's Cloudy One key Nobody Knows De Trouble 've Seen T'u o keys Oh Didn't t Rain Two keys Oh Wasn't Dat a Wide Ribber One key Oh Peter Go Ring Dem Bells Tu'() keys o Rocks D')fi't Fall On Me Two keys Ride on King Jesus One key Sinner Please Doan Let Dis Harves' Pass One key Sometimes Feel Like A Motherless Child Three ke)'s Stan' Still Jordan Three kc)'s Steal Away T'uo keys Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Two keys 'Tis Me 0 Lord One key Wade n De Water T'u o keys Weepin' Mary Two keys Were You There Three keys You May Bury Me in De Eas' T'u o keys Low / Medium PRCE 60 CENTS High G RCORD & CO NEW YORK AND AT LONDON PARS LEPZG LORRACH ROME PALERMO, NAPLFS BFNOSARES SAN PAUW AND MLAN PRNTED N USA
THE plantation songs known as "spirituals" are the spontaneous outbursts of intense religious fervor, and had their origin chiefly in camp meetings, revivals and other religious exercises Theywerenever "composed, but sprang intolife, ready made, from the white heat of religious fervor during some protracted meeting in camp or church, as the simple, ecstatic utterance of wholly untutored minds, and are practically the only music in America which meets the scientific definition of Folk Song Success in singing these Folk Songs is primarily depen' dent upon deep spiritual feeling The voice is not nearly so important as the spirit; and then rhythm, for the Negro's soul is linked with rhythm, and it is an essential characteristic of most all the Folk Songs t is a serious misconception oftheir meaning and value to treat them as vministrel" songs, or to try to make them funny by a too literal attempt to imitate the manner of the Negro in singing them, by swaying the body, clapping the hands, or striving to make the peculiar inflections of voice that are natural with the colored people Their worth is weakened unless they are done impressively, for through all these songs there breathes a hope, a faith in the ultimate justice and brotherhoodofman Thecadences of sorrow invariably turn to joy, and the message is ever manifest that eventually deliverance from all that hinders and oppresses the soul will come, and manevery manwill be free H T B New York, 1917
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NEGRO SPRTUALS By H T BURLEGH ANNANGElJ FOR FEMALE VOCES Balm in Gilead Behold That Scar By An' By De Blin' Man Stood On De Road Deep River De Gospel Train, Ezekiel Saw De Wheel Go Down Moses Hard Trials Heav'n Heav'n, Don't Feel NoWays Tired Want To Be Ready My Way's Cloudy Nobody Knows De Trouble 've Seen Oh Didn't t Rain Oh Perer Go Ring Dern Bells Sinner Please Doan Let Dis Harves' Pass Sometimes Feel Like A Motherless Child Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Tis Me 0 Lord Walk Together Children Weepin' Mary Were You There Your Goin' To Reap Jus' What You Sow ANNANGED FON MALE VOCES Deep River De Gospel Train Ezekiel Saw Dc Wheel Go Down Moses Hcav'n Heav'n Nobody Knows De Trouble 've Seen Oh Peter Go Ring Dem Bells Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Tis Me 0 Lord Were You There ARRANGED FOR MXED VOCES Behold That Star Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray De Gospel Train Don'r Be Weary Traveler Ev'ry Time Feel the Spirit Ezekiel Saw De Wheel Go Down Moses Go Tell t on Dc Mountains Hear De Lamhs acrying, Heav'n Heav'n Hold On Hope My Mother Will Be There, 'm A Rollin ' 've Been in De Storm So Long, Let Us Cheer the Weary Traveller My Lord What A Morning Nobody Knows De Trouble 've Scm o Lord Have Mercy On Me Sinner Please Doan Let Dis Harves' POl" Stan' Still Jordan Steal Away Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Wade n De Warer Were You There You Goin to Reap Jus' What You Sow