Wade in the Water
Posted by JTyler on Friday, September 9, 2011
There's a song with this title that I've heard performed by Johnny
Griffin. It sounds pretty good. You can find it on youtube if you
search the title with his name. However, I was reading about American
history during the colonial era, and it turns out Wade in the Water was
an instructional song. During that time, slaves sang songs that seemed
innocent to the slave masters, but were actually songs that helped
people who wanted to escape to freedom. This song would basically tell
the captives that they can cover up their tracks if they travel through
rivers. That seemed pretty interesting. I wonder what other songs from
today are taken from old slave songs...