Hold Your Light

DESCRIPTION: "What make ole Satan da follow me so? Satan hain't nothin' all all for to do with me. (Run Seeker.) Hold your light (Sister Mary), Hold your light (Seeker turn back), Hold your light on Canaan's shore."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1867 (Allen/Ware/Garrison-SlaveSongsUnitedStates)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad Devil
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Allen/Ware/Garrison-SlaveSongsUnitedStates, p. 10, "Hold Your Light" (1 text, 1 tune)
Higginson-ArmyLifeInABlackRegiment 1, p. 199, "Hold Your Light" (1 text)
Joyner-FolkSongInSouthCarolina, p. 84, "Hold Your Light" (1 text, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: H.G. Spaulding, "Under the Palmetto" in _The Continental Monthly_, Vol. 4, No. 11 (August 1863 ("Digitized by Google")), p. 198, "(Hold your light)" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #11851
NOTES [9 words]: Spaulding is writing from Port Royal, South Carolina. - BS
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File: AWH010A

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