Name: Wade in the Water (arr. Becky Sun) by African American Spiritual SATB Choir Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Becky Sun
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Wade in the Water (arr. Becky Sun)
by African American Spiritual SATB Choir - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title Wade in the Water (arr. Becky Sun)

Artist African American Spiritual

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer African American Spiritual

Arranger Becky Sun

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 5

Arrangement SATB Choir

Publisher Becky Sun

Level 4

Product ID 998292

Genre Gospel Spiritual

Instruments Choir

Product Description

Many African American spirituals have dual meanings. On the surface, "Wade in the Water" is about Christian baptism or the Israelites crossing the Red Sea. Harriet Tubman used the song as a code to remind enslaved people who were escaping to get into a body of water when slavecatchers dogs were after them. God helps by troubling the water so the dogs would have an even harder time catching the escapees scent. The original verses are wonderful but rather opaque (by design), so I wrote two new verses to make the message and setting of this song more apparent for the modern audience.

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