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Benediction/ The Lord Bless You and Keep You
Traditional Old-Time, Bluegrass Gospel;
ARTIST: "The story of the Jubilee Singers, including their Songs" 1877
http://www.archive.org/stream/storyofjubileesi00mars#page/299/mode/1up
CATEGORY: Traditional Bluegrass Gospel;
DATE: 1800s; 1877 "The story of the Jubilee Singers, including their Songs"
First Recorded in Fisk Jubilee Singers
RECORDING INFO: Benediction
Fisk Jubilee Singers. Marsh, J. B. T. / Story of the Jubilee Singers, Houghton Mifflin, Bk (1880), p265/#128
OTHER NAMES: "The Lord Bless You and Keep You"
SOURCES: Story of the Jubilee Singers; online
NOTES: "Benediction: The Lord Bless You and Keep You" is found in "The story of the Jubilee Singers, including their Songs" (1903) by J. B. T. Marsh, which was first published in 1877.
The book is “the story of a little company [The Jubilee Singers] of emancipated slaves who set out to secure, by their singing, the fabulous sum of $20,000 for the impoverished school [Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee] in which they were students.”
Benediction- Fisk Jubilee Singers 1877
The Lord bless you and keep you;
The Lord make his face shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee;
The Lord lift His countenance upon Thee and give thee peace, Amen.
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