In That Great Getting-Up Morning
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The Bay Psalm Book (complete title: The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre) is a metrical psalter first printed in 1640 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It contains no melodies, only texts, but this excerpt is included here because Dr. Southern devotes several paragraphs to it in The Music of Black Americans.
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[Cambridge, Mass.: Imprinted by S. Daye]
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William Francis Allen, 1830-1889; Charles Pickard Ware, 1840-1921; Lucy McKim Garrison, 1842-1877 [editors]
As Dr. Southern notes, other titles for this song include Turkey in the Straw, Coony in de Hollar and Opossum Up a Gum Tree.
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Is There a Heart That Never Lov'd
The version of this piece which appears in The Music of Black Americans combines Braham's tune (Is there a heart that never lov'd) and Brown's text (The sweets of liberty) to demonstrate how familiar songs were sung with newly written texts at mid-eighteenth-century anti-slavery meetings in New England.
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Austin, Texas, Published by the Texas Folklore Society
J. Frank (James Frank) Dobie, 1888-1964 [editor]
As Dr. Southern notes in The Music of Black Americans, the melody used for John Brown's Body was composed by William Steffe, whose name does not appear on this version of the piece.
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William Eleazar Barton, 1861-1930 [compiler]
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William E. (William Eleazar) Barton, 1861-1930 [compiler]