Deep River, My home is over Jordan. Deep River, Lord. I want to cross over into campground. Deep River. My home is over Jordan. Deep River, Lord, I want to cross over into campground. Oh, don't you want to go, To the Gospel feast; That Promised Land, Where all is peace? Oh, deep River, Lord, I want to cross over into campground.
So, so moving. Thank you for posting. As a public educator, I plan to share it with my music students. I have a question, is it politically correct to use the term "Negro Spiritual"? I am a white woman, raised when this was the term used, with no racism in my heritage. I purchased a wonderful set of posters to honor black musicians during Black History month, and this term is used in the teaching materials. My instinct is to omit it. Please educate me.
Good day Ms. Gabriella, first of all, may I commend you for your service, commitment, and emphatic soul to teach our young, in whatever capacity that might be. As a educated musician, Bachelor of Fine Arts, and now older trained Opera Singer who never set foot on stage in a operatic production, rather after many years later on the path following a lead from the Life Force, I walked into a career of Gospel and Spiritual Music, with today legendary acclaim and honors. As a hobby back in the day, long before both electronic and communications revolutions took the world by storm, I would sit hours on the tour bus reading everything I could get my hands on surrounding spirituality, metaphysics, and a fast approaching switch from Newtonian physics to Quantum Mechanics. I share this with you as an educator because my discoveries were literally out of this world, and I quickly found out that mankind cannot change the past, only when any given happening or incident has occurred in a 24 hour period considered to be in the "Myst", can be changed by that person before the sun goes down before becoming "Crystallized", and unchangeable forever. There is although one other possibility concerning the past, "we can create a new timeline" and venture off into a whole new experience and beginning, which is indeed a very difficult and complicated subject and matter. Nevertheless, your question and interest is very valid and still today raises eyebrows, causing frictions among many "Black" people, as the word Negro started to decline in 1966 and appeared on center stage by the mid-1980s. Stokely Carmichael should be accredited who coined the phrase "Black power" at a 1966 rally in Mississippi and up until then, Negro was how most black Americans described themselves, although the term implied black inferiority and the use of the world Negro soon became shorthand when two-thirds of the black American population still preferred "colored", but black had become the majority preference by 1974 and Negro was nearly abandoned by the mid-1980s where even the most hidebound institutions, like the U.S. Supreme Court had largely stopped using Negro. In 1988, Jesse Jackson led the push toward African-American. But, so far, the change does not seem to have the same momentum that Negro and black once did, and despite public outcry, the U.S. Census still includes the word Negro, because many older people still use it. But when you look at the back story surrounding "Spirituals", which eventually turned to Gospels, it appeared out of the deep pain and suffering experienced through the early African slaves, and the restrictions to not communicate with each other verbally, and in turn began to communicate to each other through the form of songs, chants, drum beats. Songs like "Wade in the Water" was sung in the fields to warn a fleeing slave that the dogs were coming, and he should take to the creeks or rivers to hide his scent from the bloodhounds, or "Steal Away" was letting everyone know that tonight they would be breaking out from the plantation. Of course, Deep River as beautiful as it is, was the invitation to those slaves who would like to join the now famous and well known "Underground Railroad" created by Harriet Tubman to get slaves across the Tennessee border, because once into Kentucky, they were considered free by North and South stipulations. Therefore, in all respect to these great "people of Color" and ethnicity, referring to them as Negro is not something that modern day black people can change and I think it is respectful to leave good enough alone for future generations and children, for in truth, we can't change the past, rather only change ourselves, and perhaps, change the way we view the world through the eyes of the One Life Force, who ultimately has the last word. Still, I will leave it up to you and what your heart tells you, because no matter how we look at life, the Golden Rule remains supreme and clearly the best course of action for all humans with souls and emphatic hearts, just as the true way of life and living in our human situation will always be one of observation, and which way or that as to how it all ends, my educated guess assures me that the end game is paradise and God At-one-ment (Atonement).
Through my music career over many years, I observed how the opening text to "Old Man River" changed from "Niggers all work on the Mississippi" to "Colored folks work on the Mississippi", to "Here we all work on the Mississippi", and for all I know now, it just might be changed again in order to not slight or insult people, so we are learning as we go.
He sang this at my father's memorial service. Heart poured out. ❤️
Wow. I am so sorry for your loss, but what an incredible man to have honor your father with song 🙏
Deep River,
My home is over Jordan.
Deep River, Lord.
I want to cross over into campground.
Deep River.
My home is over Jordan.
Deep River, Lord,
I want to cross over into campground.
Oh, don't you want to go,
To the Gospel feast;
That Promised Land,
Where all is peace?
Oh, deep River, Lord,
I want to cross over into campground.
Thanks for citing the words. I always wondered if l had heard these words right.
O God, what a beauty! A Spirituual is a Spiritual. And sang by an impeccable baritone...
A very smooth
voice
Simply beautiful
So beautiful...
I love these old slave spiritual songs. That's one reason l love to watch GREEN PASTURES. These songs have so much hidden meaning.
GREEN PASTURES?
@@TheBebelehaut ...a 1936 all-Black cast movie, based on stories in the Old Testament; featuring Rex Ingram as "de Lawd".
A famous line: Even bein' Gawd ain't no bed of roses...I'll just rear back 'n pass a miracle.
@@cmontague7333 l've heard that line "a thousand times" on my DVD 📀 .
So, so moving. Thank you for posting. As a public educator, I plan to share it with my music students. I have a question, is it politically correct to use the term "Negro Spiritual"? I am a white woman, raised when this was the term used, with no racism in my heritage. I purchased a wonderful set of posters to honor black musicians during Black History month, and this term is used in the teaching materials. My instinct is to omit it. Please educate me.
Good day Ms. Gabriella, first of all, may I commend you for your service, commitment, and emphatic soul to teach our young, in whatever capacity that might be. As a educated musician, Bachelor of Fine Arts, and now older trained Opera Singer who never set foot on stage in a operatic production, rather after many years later on the path following a lead from the Life Force, I walked into a career of Gospel and Spiritual Music, with today legendary acclaim and honors. As a hobby back in the day, long before both electronic and communications revolutions took the world by storm, I would sit hours on the tour bus reading everything I could get my hands on surrounding spirituality, metaphysics, and a fast approaching switch from Newtonian physics to Quantum Mechanics. I share this with you as an educator because my discoveries were literally out of this world, and I quickly found out that mankind cannot change the past, only when any given happening or incident has occurred in a 24 hour period considered to be in the "Myst", can be changed by that person before the sun goes down before becoming "Crystallized", and unchangeable forever. There is although one other possibility concerning the past, "we can create a new timeline" and venture off into a whole new experience and beginning, which is indeed a very difficult and complicated subject and matter. Nevertheless, your question and interest is very valid and still today raises eyebrows, causing frictions among many "Black" people, as the word Negro started to decline in 1966 and appeared on center stage by the mid-1980s. Stokely Carmichael should be accredited who coined the phrase "Black power" at a 1966 rally in Mississippi and up until then, Negro was how most black Americans described themselves, although the term implied black inferiority and the use of the world Negro soon became shorthand when two-thirds of the black American population still preferred "colored", but black had become the majority preference by 1974 and Negro was nearly abandoned by the mid-1980s where even the most hidebound institutions, like the U.S. Supreme Court had largely stopped using Negro. In 1988, Jesse Jackson led the push toward African-American. But, so far, the change does not seem to have the same momentum that Negro and black once did, and despite public outcry, the U.S. Census still includes the word Negro, because many older people still use it. But when you look at the back story surrounding "Spirituals", which eventually turned to Gospels, it appeared out of the deep pain and suffering experienced through the early African slaves, and the restrictions to not communicate with each other verbally, and in turn began to communicate to each other through the form of songs, chants, drum beats. Songs like "Wade in the Water" was sung in the fields to warn a fleeing slave that the dogs were coming, and he should take to the creeks or rivers to hide his scent from the bloodhounds, or "Steal Away" was letting everyone know that tonight they would be breaking out from the plantation. Of course, Deep River as beautiful as it is, was the invitation to those slaves who would like to join the now famous and well known "Underground Railroad" created by Harriet Tubman to get slaves across the Tennessee border, because once into Kentucky, they were considered free by North and South stipulations. Therefore, in all respect to these great "people of Color" and ethnicity, referring to them as Negro is not something that modern day black people can change and I think it is respectful to leave good enough alone for future generations and children, for in truth, we can't change the past, rather only change ourselves, and perhaps, change the way we view the world through the eyes of the One Life Force, who ultimately has the last word. Still, I will leave it up to you and what your heart tells you, because no matter how we look at life, the Golden Rule remains supreme and clearly the best course of action for all humans with souls and emphatic hearts, just as the true way of life and living in our human situation will always be one of observation, and which way or that as to how it all ends, my educated guess assures me that the end game is paradise and God At-one-ment (Atonement).
Through my music career over many years, I observed how the opening text to "Old Man River" changed from "Niggers all work on the Mississippi" to "Colored folks work on the Mississippi", to "Here we all work on the Mississippi", and for all I know now, it just might be changed again in order to not slight or insult people, so we are learning as we go.
it’s the term we most use you can also just say spirituals
@@rheinwelle925 Thank you for your observations - I am grateful for them, and for the very good question that inspired your response.
💜💜💜
Smh