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Arnold Rypens
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B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Artist: Doris Plenn
Author: Robert Lowry/trad.
Year: 1956
Hymn sung by abolitionist Quakers since slavery days. Lowry was a Baptist minister from Pennsylvania who first published it in Bright Jewels For The Sunday School (1869). The song was in Doris Plenn's family for generations.
Covers:
Pete Seeger [gave its title to his biography]
Enya [sued for copyright infringement; she assumed the song was traditional while one of the verses was added by Doris Plenn]
Eva Cassidy [posthumous]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)