Buy You Own Land

DESCRIPTION: Response: "Buy your/my own land." "I'm going to by me land in Canaan ... Buy me land in Canaan ... The spirit is waiting on me to ..." "For the spirit want to rejoice ... For the spirit want to come in ... For the children want to come in ..."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (WITrinidadVillage02)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious
FOUND IN: West Indies(Trinidad)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Lorna McDaniel, "Memory Spirituals of the Ex-Slave American Soldiers in Trinidad's 'Company Villages'" in _Black Music Research Journal_, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Autumn 1994 (available online by JSTOR)), p. 137, "Buy Me Own Lan'" (1 text fragment, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Henry Williams, Allan Lovelace, George Robert, "Buy You Own Land" (on WITrinidadVillage02)
NOTES [18 words]: This is a Spiritual Baptist Hymn. The current description is based on the WITrinidadVillage02 recording. - BS
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File: RcBuyYOL

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