American Slavery and the Music Tradition Playlist 1. No More Auction Block (Odetta) 2. Wade in the Water (Golden Gate Quartet) 3. Sermon: O Lord I m Your Child (Elder Otis Jones) 4. Steal Away to Jesus (Fisk Jubilee Singers) 5. Follow the Drinking Gourd (Richie Havens) 6. Go Down Moses (Louis Armstrong) 7. We Shall Overcome (Live Pete Seeger) 8. Speech: We Shall Overcome (Martin Luther King, Jr.) 9. Free At Last (Dock Reed & Vera Hall) 10. Speech: I Have A Dream (Martin Luther King, Jr.) No More Auction Block For Me No more pint of salt for me No more pint of salt for me No more driver s lash for me No more driver s lash for me 1
Wade in the Water Wade in the water Wade in the water, children Wade in the water You know my God s going to trouble the water Now the first step I took in Jordan Well the water came to my knees So I took another step in Jordan And the water came to my waist So I waded a little further down in Jordan And the water came over my head And I looked and saw a man up on Canaan side He was a- making up a dying bed Steal Away to Jesus Steal away, steal away Steal away to Jesus Steal away, steal away home I ain t got long to stay here My Lord, he calls me He calls by the thunder The trumpet sounds within my soul I ain t got long to stay here 1 Green trees are bending Po sinner stand a- trembling The trumpet sounds within my soul I ain t got long to stay here 1 Some versions include this second verse. The Fisk Jubilee Singers version does not. 2
Follow the Drinking Gourd When the sun comes back And the first quail calls For the old man is waiting to carry you to freedom The riverbank makes a mighty good road The dead trees will show you the way Left foot, peg foot, traveling on The river ends between two hills There s another river on the other side When the great big river meets the little river For the old man is waiting to carry you to freedom For the old man is waiting to carry you to freedom If you follow the drinking gourd 3
Go Down Moses Now when Israel was in Egypt land Oppressed so hard they could not stand Go down Moses Way down in Egypt land Tell ole Pharaoh To let my people go So Moses went to Egypt land He made ole Pharaoh understand Thus spoke the Lord, bold Moses said If not, I ll smite your first born dead 4
We Shall Overcome We shall overcome, we shall overcome Oh, deep in my heart, I know that I do believe We will walk hand in hand, we will walk hand in hand We will walk hand in hand some day We shall live in peace, we shall live in peace We shall live in peace some day The whole wide world around, the whole wide world around The whole wide world around some day We are not afraid, we are not afraid We are not afraid today We shall overcome, we shall overcome Oh, deep in my heart, I know that I do believe 5
Free At Last Free at last, free at least Thank God I m free at last Free at last, free at last One day, one day I m walking along One day ole Satan said to me Young man, young man you too young to pray I m too young to pray, I ain t too young to die Satan is mad and I am glad Well he missed his soul that he thought he had 6