Monday, April 12, 2010

Rachel

Deep River
- song meant they they are looking forward to freedom and they admired god for triumphing over evil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW_txrkc8AM

Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1O4cSltSRo

This is version of the spiritual without instruments. It is professionally done, in comparison with the way slaves may have sung. The song is about the suffering a fellow slave has seen and the pain inflicted on their peers. The last line states "I have my trials here below" which references the hard life of slaves in the South.

Deep River

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJB2ZpvZQRQ&feature=related

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlHUauwdv4k&feature=relatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlHUauwdv4k&feature=related

Tom Baker
"Oh Freedom"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuPjPDKYazE

Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y9QxVY0DcU