'Go Down Moses': (flute ensemble)
Автор: Willie-Whistleblower
Загружено: 2026-01-04
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The opening verse, as published by the Jubilee Singers in 1872:
When Israel was in Egypt's land
Let my people go
Oppress'd so hard they could not stand
Let my people go
Refrain:
Go down, Moses
Way down in Egypt's land
Tell old Pharaoh
Let my people go
Superficially, the song refers to Biblical narrative of the Exodus. That story held a subversive meaning for enslaved African Americans, because they related their experiences under slavery to those of Biblical Israelites under Egyptian slavery, and the idea that God would come to the aid of the persecuted resonated with them. "Go Down Moses" also makes reference to the Jordan River, commonly associated in spirituals with reaching freedom, because the act of running away often involved crossing one or more rivers.
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