Wade in the Water

Bibliography and Credits

Music

“Wade in the Water”, SNCC Freedom Singers led by Fannie Lou Hamer (1963), Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966, Smithsonian Folkways, 1992.

“Wade in the Water”, Kim and Reggie Harris, Steal Away: Songs of the Underground Railroad, Appleseed Recordings, 1984.

Lyrics and Sheet Music

“Wade in the Water” lyrics from If you don’t go, don’t hinder me, Bernice Johnson Reagon, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2001, p. 128.

“Wade in the Water” sheet music and lyrics from Ev’ry Time I Feel The Spirt: Negro Spirituals 1600-1870, Gwendolin Sims Warren, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1997.

Photographs and Images

Books and Articles

If you don’t go, don’t hinder me, Bernice Johnson Reagon, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2001, p. 128.