Turn back Pharaoh’s army (1872)
Nobody knows (1874)
Did you hear my Jesus ? (1874)
Shout All Over God's Heaven (I got a robe) (1915)
Were you there ? (1899/1937)
Steal away (1872/1882/1915)
Swing low, sweet chariot (1874)
I’m going to do...
One of the first arrangements (published in 1874) of this spiritual, as it was sung by the first vocal ensembles some of whose members were born as slaves in the United States.
A joyful Spiritual published in 1872, with a beautiful harmonic color. Moses liberating his people from Egyptian slavery and crossing the Red Sea before Pharaoh's troops were engulfed by the waters, is one of the symbols of the slave status in...