Oh, Jerusalem in the Morning

DESCRIPTION: Single line followed by response "Oh Jerusalem in de mornin'." Single line sequence ... "baby born today" "born in a manger" "the stall was his cradle" ... repeated.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1961 (Hughes)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious baby Jesus childbirth | Jerusalem morning
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Robert Winslow Gordon, "Negro 'Shouts' from Georgia" in Alan Dundes, editor, _Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel_ (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1990) ("Mother Mary, what is de matter") p. 450 (1 text)
NOTES [49 words]: The title is taken from the text included in Langston Hughes's play, Black Nativity (Woodstock: Dramatic Publishing, n.d.), "Oh, Jerusalem in the Morning" p. 9 (1 text)
The Gordon text, from the Georgia Sea Islands, describes this as a ring shout song for Christmas Eve/Christmas day "watch." - BS
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