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Thread #109583 Message #2292166
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
18-Mar-08 - 08:02 PM
Thread Name: Origins: One More River to Cross
Subject: RE: Origins: One More River to Cross
The song here is based in part on the spiritual, "Wide River," in Work, John Wesley, 1915, "Folk Song of the American Negro," p. 47.
Reprint 1969, Negro Universitie Press, NY.