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I Want To Go Home (collected in 1867 by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison)
This chant follows the traditional call-and-response format and gave its singers a great deal of latitude in melody ornamentation. According to the collectors, the seventh verse was added following the Emancipation Proclamation.
- Dere's no rain to wet you.
Ch: O yes, I want to go home, want to go home.
- Dere's no sun to burn you.
Ch: O yes, I want to go home, want to go home.
- Dere's no hard trials.
- Dere's no whips a-crackin'.
- Dere's no stormy weather.
- Dere's no tribulation.
- No more slavery in de kingdom.
- No evil-doers in de kingdom.
- All is gladness in de-kingdom.
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