Old railroad songs
[DOC File]from the book 'Long Steel Rail' by Norm Cohen
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Scholastic. 2001. 108 pages. A nine-year-old slave keeps a diary of his journey to freedom along the Underground Railroad in 1857. ... Learn about signal songs and map songs, spirituals sung by those traveling on the Underground Railroad. ... This is the official site of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, which provides vast ...
[DOC File]Achievethecore.org
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Two of the songs are not strictly 500th but were felt worthy of inclusion: “Old Hogan’s Goat” is a marching song from an Air Corps Basic Training Center in Miami Beach. “Sound Off” may be post-WWII but is fun to sing and was too good to omit from the collection.
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Songs of Freedom. The seemingly innocent spirituals, as the slave songs came to be known, were more than simple hymns of endurance and a belief in a better afterlife. As sung by slaves and their descendants, the spirituals allowed the slaves to communicate secret messages and information to each other about the Underground Railroad.
[DOC File]NEGRO SPIRITUALS: SONGS OF SURVIVAL
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songs sung by Vernon Dalhart, among others. I met Mr. Meeks several years ago. and enjoyed his fascinating stories of both the music business and. railroading. The Book "The Long Steel Rail, The Railroad in American Folklore" by Norm. Cohen is a wonderful resource for this sort of project. It was published in. 1981 by the University of Illinois ...
[DOC File]HENRY'S FREEDOM BOX:
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Songs include: This Train is Bound for Glory, The Ballad of the Underground Railroad, Follow the Drinking Gourd, Darling Nelly Gray, Steal Away, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, The Gospel Trains a Comin’, and Wade in the Water. These resources could be used in a variety of ways including singing, play writing, creative writing or more.
[DOC File]Content Standard - U.S. History Mr. Andrews
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For the old man is a-waiting to carry you to freedom . If you follow the drinking gourd. This song is actually a map and timetable for the Underground Railroad. It tells the slave to follow the Big Dipper in the sky. This points to the North and freedom.
Classic Train Songs™
Possible songs: I’ve been Working on the Railroad, She’ll Be Comin’ Round The Mountain, Dinah, Big Rock Candy Mountain, Rock Island Line, A Gust of Fall Wind ... Students may research familiar songs of students and compare the songs closely related to the old folksongs.
[DOC File]Songs of Freedom - re-news
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Group 4 Songs of the Underground Railroad. Songs associated with the Underground Railroad demonstrate that music has always been important in the heritage of African American people. This music can relay a story or bring people together in a common cause. In the slavery era, songs may have conveyed coded meanings to help bring the slaves to ...
[DOCX File]How the Underground Railroad worked and the people ...
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In those songs, going home can mean going to heaven, which is the only way some slaves ever escaped slavery. But during the days of the Underground Railroad, songs were used as a means to escape. Sometimes information about where to go or who to meet was contained in a song that had been rewritten. Songs were also used for encouragement.
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