Phoebe Morel the Slave

DESCRIPTION: "I had a dream, a happy dream, I dreamt that I was free, And in my own bright land again, there was a home for me." The singer awakens still a slave. She never knew her mother, and was taken from home when father dies. She seeks death or freedom
AUTHOR: Words: Charles Jefferys / Music: Stephen Glover (source: sheet music at Brown University Library; most sheet music copies seem to omit the authorship)
EARLIEST DATE: 1869 (Sweet-Genevieve-Songster)
KEYWORDS: slave home mother father freedom
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REFERENCES (3 citations):
Dime-Song-Book #8, p. 52, "I Had a Dream" (1 text)
Sweet-Genevieve-Songster, p. 55, "Phoebe Morrell" (1 text)
Wolf-AmericanSongSheets, #963, p. 65, "I Had a Dream" (2 references)
Roud #2681
BROADSIDES:
NLScotland, Crawford.EB.2405, "Phoebe Morel," unknown, n.d.
File: SGS055

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