Product Description
This arrangement is for 4-part male voices (TTBB) a cappella. The melody is passed around to each part during the presentation, which makes it interesting to sing or to hear it sung.
This Spiritual was created before the Civil War, circa 1840. "Mary Don't You Weep" (alternately titled "O Mary Don't You Weep", "Oh Mary, Don't You Weep, Don't You Mourn", or variations thereof) is a Spiritual that originates from before the American Civil War thus
it describes their origins among the enslaved, and it contains "coded messages of hope and resistance." The song tells the Biblical story of Mary of Bethany and her distraught pleas to Jesus to raise her brother Lazarus from the dead. Other narratives relate to The Exodus and the Passage of the Red Sea, with the chorus proclaiming Pharaoh's army got drown-ded, and to God's rainbow covenant to Noah after the Great Flood. There are many verses that developed over the years, here are just a few.
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