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Helen Creighton: Folklife

Results 1 to 27 of 27 from your search: African Nova Scotian song

Item	Reference	Digital
Dearest Mary performed by William Riley at Cherry Brook, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Oh, dearest Mary take pity on poor me — 1943	Audio Reel: 5036 Recording number: 80 notes: Mf289-18
Go Down Moses performed by William Riley at Cherry Brook, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Let my people go — 1943	Audio Reel: 5036 Recording number: 81 notes: Mf289-18
We'll Sell The Pig and We'll Sell The Cow performed by William Riley at Cherry Brook, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: The horn blow, the cotting do grow — 1943	Audio Reel: 5036 Recording number: 82 notes: Mf289-18
Welcome Table performed by Nina Barclay Finn at Cherry Brook, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: I'm going to feast at the welcome table — 1943	Audio Reel: 5036 Recording number: 83 notes: Mf289-18
Come Go To Bed performed by William Riley at Cherry Brook, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Come go to bed — 1943	Audio Reel: 5037 Recording number: 96 notes: Mf289-20
Fhir a'Bhata performed by John McNeill and Fred Kennedy at South River Lake, Antigonish County, Nova Scotia — 1943	Audio Reel: 5037 Recording number: 98 notes: Mf289-20
No More Auction Block For Me performed by William Riley at Cherry Brook, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: No more auction block for me, no more, no more — 25 August 1943	Audio Reel: 5070 Recording number: 417 notes: Mf289-85
Oh Dearest Mary performed by William Riley at Cherry Brook, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Oh dearest Mary do not break my heart — 25 August 1943	Audio Reel: 5070 Recording number: 418 notes: Mf289-85
Never the Child Be Sold (We'll Sell the Pig and Sell the Cow) performed by William Riley at Cherry Brook, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: We'll sell the pig and sell the cow — 25 August 1943	Audio Reel: 5070 Recording number: 422 notes: Mf289-85
Auction Block performed by Mrs. Nina Bartley Finn at Dartmouth, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: No more auction block for me, no more, no more — 29 August 1943	Audio Reel: 5070 Recording number: 424 notes: Mf289-85
Daniel In The Lion's Den performed by Children at the Home For Coloured Children at Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Daniel in the lion's den — 9 February 1944	Audio Reel: 5082 Recording number: 557 notes: Mf289-109
Where Shall I Be When The First Trumpet Sounds performed by Children at the Home For Coloured Children at Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: I may be on my knees when the first trumpet sounds — 9 February 1944	Audio Reel: 5082 Recording number: 558 notes: Mf289-109
Stayed On Jesus performed by Children at the Home For Coloured Children at Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: I woke up this morning with my ming stayed on Jesus — 9 February 1944	Audio Reel: 5085 Recording number: 585 notes: Mf289-115
Nothing But Peace in that Land performed by Children at the Home For Coloured Children at Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: I've a father in that land where I'm bound — 9 February 1944	Audio Reel: 5085 Recording number: 586 notes: Mf289-115
Welcome Table performed by Children at the Home For Coloured Children at Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: I'm gonna feast on milk and honey — 9 February 1944	Audio Reel: 5085 Recording number: 588 notes: Mf289-115
I've Got A Home performed by Children at the Home For Coloured Children at Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia — 8 February 1944	Audio Reel: 5086 Recording number: 595 notes: Mf289-117
What Band That Sunday Morning at Preston, Halifax County, Nova Scotia — 9 February 1944	Audio Reel: 5086 Recording number: 597 notes: Mf289-117
They Shall Be Mine at Preston, Halifax County, Nova Scotia — 9 February 1944	Audio Reel: 5086 Recording number: 598 notes: Mf289-117
Little Sam performed by Miss Grace Smith at Dartmouth, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: I'se a roving little darkie all the way from Alabama — 4 April 1944	Audio Reel: 5095 Recording number: 669 notes: Mf289-135
Lion's Den performed by Edmund Henneberry at Eastern Passage, Halifax County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: A fair maid was courted by many's the noble — 6 June 1948	Audio Reel: 5121 Recording number: 937 notes: Mf289-185
Mountains They Will Skip Away performed by Marguerite Letson at Port Medway, Queens County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: The mountains they will skip away — 13 July 1949	Audio Reel: 5148 Recording number: 1200 notes: Mf289-240
Let Me In The Lifeboat performed by Marguerite Letson at Port Medway, Queens County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Come brother sailors, and don't you fall asleep — 13 July 1949	Audio Reel: 5148 Recording number: 1201 notes: Mf289-240
Lion's Den (The Maiden's Courtship) performed by Aggie Everett at Victoria Beach, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: Listen awhile and I'll sing you a ditty — September 7, 1949	Audio Reel: 5159 Recording number: 1337 notes: Mf289-261
Welcome Table performed by Charles Owens at Bridgetown, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: I'm a-going to climb up Jacob's ladder — June 1953	Audio Reel: 5619 Recording number: 2275 notes: Mf289-482
Lion's Den, The performed by Ned McKay at Little Harbour first line of lyric: In London city there lived a lady — August 1955	Audio Reel: 5838 Recording number: 3022 notes: Mf289-662
Day I Left the Old Plantation, The performed by Ruth Metcalfe at Louisbourg, Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia first line of lyric: On the day that I left the old plantation — July 1956	Audio Reel: 5810 Recording number: 3093 notes: Mf289-642
Adam, Mudder Eve performed by Scott Stuart at St. Andrews, New Brunswick first line of lyric: I heard the old folks talking in a house the other night, — June 1958	Audio Reel: 5950 Recording number: 3613 notes: Mf289-765

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