Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
The spiritual as the Fisk Jubilee Singers first printed it, in unison, here set for 2 to 4 singers: everyone sings the refrain in harmony, the soprano sings each verse alone, and everyone joins its last line. Three verses, each into the refrain. Steady and rhythmic, in a minor key.
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The first verse
Words: traditional spiritual, as sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers (published 1872)Tune: traditional spiritual, as sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers (published 1872)
Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel, D'liver Daniel, d'liver Daniel,Didn't my Lord d'liver Daniel, And why not a every man?
About Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel is a spiritual from the Fisk Jubilee Singers' book of 1872, Theodore F. Seward's Jubilee Songs. Seward noted that more than half the book's melodies leave out the fourth and seventh notes of the scale; this tune is one of them, using only five notes. Our tune and words are read from its unison melody, a tone higher, in A minor; the four parts are our own. This is the refrain and three of its four verses for 2 to 4 singers: the soprano sings each verse alone, and everyone joins its last line.
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