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We'll soon be free (
Thrice.)
When Jesus sets me free.
We'll fight for liberty (
Thrice.)
When
de Lord will call us home.
The suspicion in this case was unfounded, but they had another song to which the
Rebellion had actually given rise.
This was composed by nobody knew whom,though it was the most recent, doubtless, of all these “spirituals,” --and had been sung in secret to avoid detection.
It is certainly plaintive enough.
The peck of corn and pint of salt were slavery's rations.
XXXV.
many thousand go.
No more peck oa corn for me,
No more, no more,--
No more peck oa corn for me,
Many tousand go.
No more driver's lash for me, (
Twice.)
No more, &c.
No more pint oa salt for me, (
Twice.)
No more, &c.
No more hundred lash for me, (
Twice.)
No more, &c.
No more mistress' call for me,
No more, no more,--
No more mistress' call for me,
Many tousand go.
Even of this last composition, however, we have only the approximate date and know nothing of the mode of composition.
Allan Ramsay says of the Scotch songs, that, no matter who made them, they were soon attributed to the minister of the parish whence they sprang.
And I always wondered, about these, whether they had always
