ROLLING ALONG IN SONG BY J ROSAMOND JOHNSON - ring shouts, spirituals, work song

Description

ROLLING ALONG IN SONG: A CHRONOLOGICAL SURVEY OF AMERICAN NEGRO MUSIC Hardcover CONDITION GOOD SIGNED BY PREVIOUS OWNER - COPYRIGHT  1937
by J. Rosamond Johnson (Author)--PUBLISHED BY THE VIKING PRESS - 224 PAGES BOOK SIZE 8 X 10 1/4 ..Rolling along in song a chronological survey of American Negro music : with eighty-seven arrangements of Negro songs, including ring shouts, spirituals, work songs, plantation ballads, chain-gang, jail-house, and minstrel songs, street cries, and blues / edited and arranged by J. Rosamond Johnson
Sit down, sister, sit down -- Oh, I want two wings -- See can't you jump for joy -- I been in de storm, so long -- Dese bones am gwineter rise again -- I mourned in de valley -- Hush, somebody callin' my name -- Get right, stay right -- De angels lookin' at me -- King Jesus is a-lis'enin' -- I'm lookin' for my Jesus or Can't stay away -- Oh, rock-a my soul -- O Mary, don't you weep, don't you mourn -- Run, to my Lord -- De church bell tollin', ding, dong -- Many thousan' gone -- When I'm dead, don't you grieve after me -- I'm trampin' or Tryin' to make heab'n my home -- Go down in de lonesome valley -- Somebody got lost in de storm -- Han' me down yo' silvah trumpet, Gabriel -- Now let me fly -- Peter on de sea, sea, sea, sea -- Call dat religion? No, no no -- no, no, no! -- Oh, you bettah mind! -- Run to de city of refuge -- Who built the ark? -- A hund'ed lit'l angels in the ban' -- Go, tell it on de mountain -- I jes' come from de fountain -- I'll be ready when de great day come -- Hallelujah to de lam' -- The old cabin home -- Rosa Lee -- Darling Nelly Gray -- Listen to the mockin' bird -- Carry me back to old Virginny -- My old Kentucky home -- Old folks at home or Way down upon de Swanee River -- In the evenin' by the moonlight -- Take yo' time, Miss Lucy -- Monkey married the baboon's sister -- Ring, ring de banjo -- Turkey in the straw -- Shoo, fly, don't bother me! -- Chicken reel -- I been workin' on de levee -- Carve dat 'possum -- Jump Jim Crow -- Oh, dem golden slippers! -- A-way down south in Dixie -- Oh, Susanna! -- Short'nin' bread -- De camptown races -- Po' boy -- Yonder comes the high sheriff -- Bird in a cage -- Been in de pen so long -- Seven long years in state prison -- The midnight special -- He's a-choppin' in de new groun' -- John Henry -- Casey Jones -- Drivin' steel or Hammer man song -- Don't let yo' watch run down -- Florida cakewalk -- Watermelons -- Sweet oranges -- Chimney sweeper -- Blueberries -- The broom man -- My baby's in Memphis, layin' aroun' -- Stagolee -- Stagolee done kill de bully -- Honey, take one on me -- Satisfied -- Them lonesome moanin' blues -- Gwine down dat lonesome road -- Water me from de lime rock -- Workin' on de chain gang -- One mo' mile to go -- Rainbow roun' my shoulder -- You gotta bus' dis rock -- Back to de jail -- Dis am de hammer -- excerpt from Porgy and Bess / Gershwin -- Li'l gal