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Follow the Drinking Gourd:; A Cultural History ... If you follow the drinking gourd. ... "Follow the Drinking Gourd" is from the Woodum original. The "drinking gourd" alludes to the hollowed out gourd used by slaves (and other rural Americans) as a water dipper. Used here it is a code name for the Big Dipper star formation,
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www.followthedrinkinggourd.org/What_The_Lyrics_Mean.htm
www.followthedrinkinggourd.org/What_The_Lyrics_Mean.htm
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Explanation of "Follow the Drinking Gourd" ... When the sun comes back and the first quail calls, Follow the Drinking Gourd. For the old man is waiting for to carry you to freedom, If you follow the Drinking Gourd.
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Follow the drinking gourd, Follow the drinking gourd, For the old man is waiting for to carry you to freedom if you follow the drinking gourd. When the sun comes back, and the first Quail calls, Follow the drinking gourd, For the old man is waiting for to carry you to freedom If you follow the drinking gourd.
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quest.nasa.gov/ltc/special/mlk/drink.html
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Perhaps no song is more closely associated with the Underground Railroad than this one. ... At each job, he would become friendly with the slaves and teach them the words to the song, Follow the Drinking Gourd. Each spring following Peg Leg Joe’s visit to these plantations, many young men would be missing from...
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www.osblackhistory.com/drinkinggourd.php
www.osblackhistory.com/drinkinggourd.php
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Follow the Drinkin' Gourd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Drinkin' Gourd is another name for the Big Dipper asterism. Folklore has it that fugitive slaves in the United States used to use it as a point of reference so they would not get lost. The aster...
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Midi File, Lyrics and Information to The Drinking Gourd ... Follow the drinking gourd; The old man is a-waitin' for to carry you to freedom; Follow the drinking gourd; Chorus; Follow the drinking gourd, follow the drinking gourd; For the old man is a-waitin' to carry you to freedom;
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www.contemplator.com/america/gourd.html
www.contemplator.com/america/gourd.html
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Follow the drinkin' gourd, ... Thus to find freedom, the slave had only to follow the gourd North. The "Old Man" in the song may be a reference to God. It is certainly open to interpretation. As in many other areas of slave discourse, meaning had to be hidden.
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www.mc.cc.md.us/Departments/hpolscrv/gourd.html
www.mc.cc.md.us/Departments/hpolscrv/gourd.html
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