Go down, Moses (Traditional)

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CPDL #17500:   Network.png  
Editor: David Newman (added 2008-07-11).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 125 kbytes       Copyright: Public Domain
Edition notes: Cross posting by Art Song Central - File Sizes: PDF: 125 KB.


General Information

Title: Go down, Moses / Let my people go ! )
Composer: Harry T. Burleigh
(arr.) (1866-1949)
Lyricist: Traditional


Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Solo Bass
Genre: Secular, Aria

Language: German
Instruments: Piano

Published: Music: Individual song, © 1917 G. Ricordi & Co. - Lyrics: Traditional.


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Original text and translations

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When Israel was in Egypt’s lan’,
Let my people go.
Oppress’d so hard they could not stand,
Let my people go.


Go down, Moses,
‘Way down in Egypt’s lan’,
Tell ole Pharoh to 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 lan’,
Tell ole Pharah to let my people go.


Lyrics: Traditional.


Note: "Pharah" is as in the score.