PELL+6

=Freedom Songs: Wade in the Water and Follow the Drinking Gourd =

__Objective__: for the students to be able to: 1. anylisis the two songs 2. to explain how it helped slaves that were running away
Answer to objective1.
 * || = Follow the Drinking Gourd = ||
 * **VERSE 1** ||  ||
 * When the sun goes down || Vs. "Sun comes back" in the original, which indicates time of year. ||
 * And the first quail call || In the original, refers to the breeding season. With the word change in line one, this lyric cannot have the same meaning. ||
 * Follow the drinkin' gourd || 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, which points to Polaris, the Pole Star, and North. ||
 * Then it's time, children ||  ||
 * to come one and all and ||  ||
 * Follow the drinkin' gourd ||  ||
 * **CHORUS** ||  ||
 * Follow the drinkin' gourd, ||  ||
 * Follow the drinkin' gourd ||  ||
 * There's a roadsign in heaven ||  ||
 * On that muddy path to freedom ||  ||
 * Follow the drinkin' gourd ||  ||
 * **VERSE 2** ||  ||
 * Pegfoot gonna show you the way || According to Parks, the one-legged Peg Leg Joe was an Underground Railroad operative who marked trees and other landmarks " with charcoal or mud of the outline of a human left foot and a round spot in place of the right foot." ||
 * Follow the drinkin' gourd ||  ||
 * Keep on movin' the Old Man say || "Ole man" is nautical slang for "Captain" (or "Commanding Officer.") According to Parks, the Underground Railroad operative Peg Leg Joe was formerly a sailor. ||
 * Follow the drinkin' gourd ||  ||
 * **CHORUS** ||  ||
 * **VERSE 3** ||  ||
 * Think I hear the angels say ||  ||
 * Follow the drinkin' gourd ||  ||
 * Stars in the heaven gonna show you the way ||  ||
 * Follow the drinkin' gourd. ||  ||
 * **CHORUS** ||  ||

= Wade in the Water =

actual song __//interpretation//__
 * Wade in the water (children)** __//walk in the water//__
 * Wade in the water**
 * Wade in the water**
 * God's gonna trouble the water** __//god will make the water stronger so that the hounds will not be able to pick up the sents of the slaves//__


 * If you don't believe I've been redeemed**
 * God's gonna trouble the water**
 * I want you to follow him on down to Jordan stream** __//walk in a river or stream of some sort//__
 * (I said) My God's gonna trouble the water**
 * You know chilly water is dark and cold** __//the water is freezing and they travel during night//__
 * (I know my) God's gonna trouble the water**
 * You know it chills my body but not my soul** __//I will persevere to the end no matter what//__
 * (I said my) God's gonna trouble the water**

Answer to objective __**2:**__

**__Wade in the Water:__**
 * it told the slaves to go into the water so that their scents would be masked, so that the hounds that were hunting them down would have a harder time to sniff them down.

**__Follow the Drinking Gourd:__**
 * The song gave specific directions on how to escape to the south.

If you are confused please visit [|this] site

the citation for my picture.
 * //followthedrinkinggourd.org//. what the lyrics mean, n.d. Web. 25 Mar. 2012. ||