Roll, Jordan, Roll
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Spiritual with roots back to the 18th century, sung by enslaved Africans working on plantations in the Americas in the 1800s in resistance to their enslavement and cruel treatment.
Roll, Jordan, roll,
Roll, Jordan, roll,
I want to go to heaven when I die,
To hear Jordan roll.
O brother,
You ought to have been there,
Yes, my Lord !
Asitting in the kingdom,
To hear Jordan roll. - Licensing
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