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struggle4progress

(118,285 posts) Tue May 27, 2014, 12:07 AM May 2014

Jacob's Ladder

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Jacob's Ladder (Original Post) struggle4progress May 2014 OP

beautiful Skittles May 2014 #1

Bernice Johnson Reagon's (I think) brilliant variant, of a pre-Civil-War call-and-response struggle4progress May 2014 #2

Brings back memories. okasha May 2014 #3

Wade in the Water struggle4progress May 2014 #4

the harmonizing is absolutely amazing! Skittles May 2014 #5

Skittles

(153,160 posts)

1. beautiful

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Tue May 27, 2014, 12:14 AM

May 2014

struggle4progress

(118,285 posts)

2. Bernice Johnson Reagon's (I think) brilliant variant, of a pre-Civil-War call-and-response

Reply to Skittles (Reply #1)

Tue May 27, 2014, 12:24 AM

May 2014

work song and later hymn, for the civil rights movement

okasha

(11,573 posts)

3. Brings back memories.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Tue May 27, 2014, 12:24 AM

May 2014

My Girl Scout troop sang this around the campfire more times than I could count--though never so beautifully. (And before anyone's nose pops out of joint, that troop was sponsored by a Catholic school.)

struggle4progress

(118,285 posts)

4. Wade in the Water

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Tue May 27, 2014, 12:41 AM

May 2014

Skittles

(153,160 posts)

5. the harmonizing is absolutely amazing!

Reply to struggle4progress (Reply #4)

Tue May 27, 2014, 01:49 AM

May 2014

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