Wade in the Water
Ella Jenkins * Track #1 On African American Folk Rhythms
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Album African American Folk Rhythms
Wade in the Water by Ella Jenkins
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“Wade in the Water” is a Negro spiritual whose lyrics were first published in the 1901 edition of New Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers. The lyrics were supposedly used by Harriet Tubman to instruct fugitive slave to trudge through the water so that the dogs chasing them will lose th...
Wade in the Water Lyrics
(Wade in the water)
(Wade in the water)
Wade in the water
Wade in the water
Wade in the water, children
God is gonna trouble these waters
See that band all dressed in white
God is gonna trouble these waters
It look like a band of the Israelites
God is gonna trouble these waters
See that band all dressed in red
God is gonna trouble these waters
Look like a band that Moses led
God is gonna trouble these waters
My Lord delivered Daniel well
Daniel well, Daniel well
Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel well
Then why not every man?
Man went down to the river
Man went down to the river, Lord
Man went down to the river
Went down there for to pray
Man went down to the river
Man went down to the river, Lord
Man went down to the river
To wash his sins all away
Washed all day, washed all night
Washed till his hands were sore
Washed all day, washed all night
Till he couldn't wash a-no more
(Hey)
Man went down to the river
Man went down to the river, Lord
Man went down to the river
Went down there for to pray
Man went down to the river
Man went down to the river, Lord
Man went down to the river
Washed his sins all away
Wade in the water
Wade in the water, children
Wade in the water
God is gonna trouble these waters
Wade in the water
Wade in the water, children
Wade in the water
God is gonna trouble these waters
God is gonna trouble these waters
God is gonna trouble these waters