Artist: Bessie Jones & the Sea Island Singers
Author: traditional
Year: 1960
On St. Simons Island, GA. Learned it from her grandparents, born in slavery. As De Ol' Sheep Done Know De Road mentioned in James Weldon Johnson's Second Book Of American Negro Spirituals (1940).
Covers:
Jayme Stone [on his Lomax Project]
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Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)