Monday, April 14, 2014

Go Down Moses!!!


'Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Go to Pharaoh and say to him, 'Thus says the Lord," 'Let my people go, that they may serve me.'
Exodus 8:1

'When Israel was in Egypt's land
Let my people go
Oppressed so hard they could not stand
Let my people go 
Go down Moses
Way down in Egypt's land
Tell old, Pharoh
Let my people go! 
Thus saith the Lord, bold Moses said
Let my people go
If not, I'll smite your first born dead
Let my people go 
Go down Moses,
Way down in Egypt's land,
Tell old, Pharoh,
Let my people go!
 No more shall they in bondage toil
Let my people go
Let them come out with Egypt's spoil
Let my people go
 Go down Moses
Way down in Egypt's land
Tell old, Pharoh
Let my people go!'

Negro Spiritual, around 1872
This song is sung at many a Sedar celebration during the reading of the Haggadah.
(read the entire story of Passover here)

2 comments:

LisaLisa said...

Happy Easter, I can hear my Mom and Dad singing this, Lord I miss that!! I have even taught this song to my grandkids this is an old spiritual song indeed. Love you!!!

Amy Lilley Designs said...

And I was taught the Nergo spirituals by my spiritual Mom, who had a choir called 'The Great Day Chorale'...however, truly, many an American home will sing 'Go Down Moses' at the annual Seder, where we remember our deliverance from the hand of the grasp of the terrible one!