Go Down Moses (Bahamas)
{{Short description|Bahamian rhyming spiritual}}
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Go Down Moses is a Bahamian Rhyming Spiritual that was documented by Charles Edwards in his book "Bahama songs and stories" in 1895.{{Cite book|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066335274;view=1up;seq=42|title=Bahama songs and stories. A contribution to folk-lore|series=Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society.vol. III, 1895|year=1895|publisher=Pub. for the American Folk-lore Society, by Houghton, Mifflin and Company; etc., etc.}}
Lyrics
Go down Moses, hol' de key,
Don' let de vwin' blo' on de righteous,
Hey! Hey! Hey, my soul.
Hey! come a fish by the name of vwale,
Swallowed brothe' Jonah by the head an' tail-a,
Hey! Hey! Hey, my soul.
You want to go to heaven vw'en you die,
Jus' stop you' tongue from telling them lies,
Hey! Hey! Hey, my soul.
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