by Guest » Mon Jan 18, 2010 9:24 pm
I have never seen or heard who wrote this song, but I'll give some opinion based on the underlying music:
It sounds very, very very much like much of the music sung by slaves during that unfortunate scar of AMerica's history. Many of those songs were that of hope, of oppression, of praise, of pain, and rejoice all at the same time. They were sung in unison, many of them many verses long and often never written down. It's almost an oral history of their faith, their hope, and their plight. I have no proof of this at all, but I can almost guarantee this is a likely origin of this song. Think about the song "Sweet Little Jesus Boy", which is of the same origin I am speaking. Read the lyrics, listen to the song, and compare.
I have never seen or heard who wrote this song, but I'll give some opinion based on the underlying music:
It sounds very, very very much like much of the music sung by slaves during that unfortunate scar of AMerica's history. Many of those songs were that of hope, of oppression, of praise, of pain, and rejoice all at the same time. They were sung in unison, many of them many verses long and often never written down. It's almost an oral history of their faith, their hope, and their plight. I have no proof of this at all, but I can almost guarantee this is a likely origin of this song. Think about the song "Sweet Little Jesus Boy", which is of the same origin I am speaking. Read the lyrics, listen to the song, and compare.