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    This document provides examples of two spirituals that were commonly sung by slaves for long periods of time. The first spiritual discusses being carried home by a chariot over the Jordan River. The second spiritual lists different people ("Brudder Robert", "Sister Lucy") that the singer is bound to meet across the Jordan River and bids them farewell. Both spirituals were simple, repetitive songs that allowed for different names to be inserted and provided a primitive form of communal singing among slaves.

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    This document provides examples of two spirituals that were commonly sung by slaves for long periods of time. The first spiritual discusses being carried home by a chariot over the Jordan River. The second spiritual lists different people ("Brudder Robert", "Sister Lucy") that the singer is bound to meet across the Jordan River and bids them farewell. Both spirituals were simple, repetitive songs that allowed for different names to be inserted and provided a primitive form of communal singing among slaves.

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    B1 Music Comparison

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    This document provides examples of two spirituals that were commonly sung by slaves for long periods of time. The first spiritual discusses being carried home by a chariot over the Jordan River. The second spiritual lists different people ("Brudder Robert", "Sister Lucy") that the singer is bound to meet across the Jordan River and bids them farewell. Both spirituals were simple, repetitive songs that allowed for different names to be inserted and provided a primitive form of communal singing among slaves.

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    CLASS (19/08): Comparison activity:

    Spirituals:
    Swing low, sweet chariot,
    Coming for to carry me home.
    Swing low, sweet chariot,
    Coming for to carry me home.

    I looked over Jordan, what do I see,


    Coming for to carry me home.
    A band of angels coming after me,
    Coming for to carry me home.

    I looked over Jordan, what do I see,


    Coming for to carry me home.
    A band of angels coming after me,
    Coming for to carry me home.

    This would be sung for half an hour at a time, perhaps, each person present being
    named in turn. It seemed the simplest primitive type of "spiritual." The next in
    popularity was almost as elementary, and, like this, named successively

    "Jordan River, I'm bound to go,


    Bound to go, bound to go, Jordan
    River, I'm bound to go,
    And bid 'em fare ye well.
    "My Brudder Robert, I'm bound to go,
    Bound to go, &c.
    "My Sister Lucy, I'm bound to go,
    Bound to go, &c.

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