In That Great Getting-Up Morning
creator: Anonymous
source: Click here to see the score in HathiTrust, from the University of California San Diego library collections
publisher: Boston: Oliver Ditson
date: 1887

Metrical version of Psalm 19
description: 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.
source: Click here to see the book in the Library of Congress's digital collections
publisher: [Cambridge, Mass.: Imprinted by S. Daye]
date: 1640
contributor: John Cotton et al.

Give Up the World
creator: Anonymous
source: Click here to see the score in Harvard Libary's digital collections
publisher: New York: A. Simpson
date: 1867
contributor: William Francis Allen, 1830-1889; Charles Pickard Ware, 1840-1921; Lucy McKim Garrison, 1842-1877 [editors]

Zip Coon
description: As Dr. Southern notes, other titles for this song include Turkey in the Straw, Coony in de Hollar and Opossum Up a Gum Tree.
creator: Anonymous
source: Click here to see the score in the Library of Congress's digital collections
publisher: New York: Thos. Birch
date: 1834

Is There a Heart That Never Lov'd
description: 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.
creator: John Bahram
source: Click here to see the score in the Library of Congress digital collections Click here to see William Wells Brown's anti-slavery alternative text in HathiTrust, from the University of Michigan's collections
publisher: Wm. Dubois
date: 1817

Follow the Drinkin' Gourd
creator: Traditional
publisher: Austin, Texas, Published by the Texas Folklore Society
date: 1928
contributor: J. Frank (James Frank) Dobie, 1888-1964 [editor]

John Brown
description: 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.
creator: William Steffe
source: Click here to see the score in the Library of Congress's digital collections
publisher: Charlestown, Massachusetts: C. S. Hall
date: 1861
contributor: C. B. Marsh [arranger]

Stay in the Field
creator: Anonymous
source: Click here to see the score in the Internet Archive, from Cornell University Library's collections
publisher: Boston: Lamson, Wolffe
date: 1899
contributor: William Eleazar Barton, 1861-1930 [compiler]

Done wid Driber's Dribin
creator: Anonymous
source: Click here to see the score in HathiTrust, from Harvard Library's collections

Before I'd Be a Slave
creator: Anonymous
source: Click here to see the score in the Internet Archive, from Cornell University Library's collections
publisher: Boston : Lamson, Wolffe
date: 1899
contributor: William E. (William Eleazar) Barton, 1861-1930 [compiler]