Classic and Contemporary Poetry
"DO DOWN, MOSES", by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN First Line: When israel was in egypt's land Last Line: O let my people go Variant Title(s): Jubilee Song;let My People Go Subject(s): African Americans - Song & Music;black Songs; Negro Spirituals | ||||||||
When Israel was in Egypt's land, O let my people go! Oppressed so hard they could not stand, O let my people go! O go down, Moses Away down to Egypt's land, And tell King Pharaoh, To let my people, go! Thus saith the Lord, bold Moses said, O let my people go! If not, I'll smite your first born dead, O let my people go! No more shall they in bondage toil, O let my people go! Let them come out with Egypt's spoil, O let my people go! Then Israel out of Egypt came, O let my people go! And left the proud oppressive land, O let my people go! O 'twas a dark and dismal night, O let my people go! When Moses led the Israelites, O let my people go! 'Twas good old Moses, and Aaron, too, O let my people go! 'Twas they that led the armies through, O let my people go! The Lord told Moses what to do, O let my people go! To lead the children of Israel through, O let my people go! O come along Moses, you'll not get lost, O let my people go! Stretch out your rod and come across, O let my people go! As Israel stood by the water side, O let my people go! At the command of God it did divide, O let my people go! When they had reached the other shore, O let my people go! They sang a song of triumph o'er, O let my people go! Pharaoh said he would go across, O let my people go! But Pharaoh and his host were lost, O let my people go! O Moses, the cloud shall cleave the way, O let my people go! A fire by night, a shade by day, O let my people go! You'll not get lost in the wilderness, O let my people go! With a lighted candle in your breast, O let my people go! Jordan shall stand up like a wall, O let my people go! And the walls of Jericho shall fall, O let my people go! Your foe shall not before you stand, O let my people go! And you'll possess fair Canaan's land, O let my people go! 'Twas just about in harvest time, O let my people go! When Joshua led his host Divine, O let my people go! O let us all from bondage flee, O let my people go! And let us all in Christ be free, O let my people go! We need not always weep and mourn, O let my people go! And wear these Slavery chains forlorn, O let my people go! This world's a wilderness of woe, O let my people go! O let us on to Canaan go, O let my people go! What a beautiful morning that will be! O let my people go! When time breaks up in eternity, O let my people go! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A NEGRO SONG OF HOME by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING PLANTATION HYMN by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY DERE'S NO HIDIN' PLACE DOWN DERE by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN NOBODY KNOWS DE TROUBLE I'VE HAD by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN WERE YOU THERE WHEN THEY CRUCIFIED MY LORD by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN "BLACK SPIRITUAL: ROLL, JORDAN, ROLL" by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN "BLACK SPIRITUAL: SWING LOW, SWEET CHARIOT (1)" by ANONYMOUS - AFRICAN AMERICAN TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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