{"id":4287,"date":"2022-04-21T16:19:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T20:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stlydias.org\/blog\/?p=4287"},"modified":"2022-04-21T16:19:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T20:19:23","slug":"wade-in-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/2022\/04\/wade-in-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wade in the Water&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cWade in the Water\u201d is a powerful African American jubilee song, first sung by enslaved people in reference to the Israelites who escaped bondage in Egypt.\u00a0 Historians believe Harriet Tubman herself sang the song to encourage those escaping slavery to make use of rivers and streams to lose the dogs used by patrols trying to capture them.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many beautiful versions of the song can be found, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RRpzEnq14Hs\">this one<\/a> by Sweet Honey In the Rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Wade-in-the-Water.m4a\">Here is a recording by Christian<\/a>, which offers suggestions for teaching and leading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are lyrics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wade in the water<br>Wade in the water, children<br>Wade in the water<br>God\u2019s gonna trouble the water<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See those people dressed in white<br>God\u2019s gonna trouble the water<br>The look like the children of the Israelites<br>God\u2019s gonna trouble the water<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wade in the water<br>Wade in the water, children<br>Wade in the water<br>God\u2019s gonna trouble the water<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See those people dressed in black<br>God\u2019s gonna trouble the water<br>They&#8217;ve come a long way and they\u2019re not turning back<br>God\u2019s gonna trouble the water<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWade in the Water\u201d is a powerful African American jubilee song, first sung by enslaved people in reference to the Israelites who escaped bondage in Egypt.\u00a0 Historians believe Harriet Tubman herself sang the song to encourage those escaping slavery to make use of rivers and streams to lose the dogs used by patrols trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4288,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions\/4288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stlydiasliturgy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}