I'm a Rolling

musical notation for _I'm a Rolling_
Midi version of the bar of music.

O brothers, won't you help me to pray?
O brothers, won't you help me,
Won't you help me in the service of the Lord?

Chorus:
I'm a rolling, I'm a rolling,
I'm a rolling through an unfriendly world....

Sundquist, in To wake the Nations, says:

"I'm a Rolling" carries an organizing anthem of racial solidarity from the antebellum world into the era of neo-slavery in order to address the racism and economic servitude that have not disappeared, but if anything, have been augmented in the era of segregation. (505)

A recording by "The Five Blind Boys Of Mississippi" of I'm a Rolling
Unknown artist singing "I'm a Rollin'" from africanamericanspirituals.com (wav file should load in background).

Chapter	Title of Chapter	Chapter's Song	Significance of the song	Author	Title	Comment
9	Of the Sons of Master and Man	I'm a Rolling	Not a master song	Mrs. Browning	"The Relation of the Negroes to the Whites in the South"	We are too close pressed to have two dreams

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