Jordan is a hard road to trabel / [sheet music]
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- Title
- Jordan is a hard road to trabel [sheet music]
- First line of text:
- I just arrived in town For to pass de time away
- First line of chorus:
- So take of[f] your coats boys
- Composer
- Emmett, Dan. D. (Daniel Decatur), 1815-1904
- Corporate Name
- G.P. Reed & Co. (Boston, Mass.)
- Place of Publication/Creation
- Type of Material
- notated music
- Genre
- sheet music
- Language
- English
- Forms
- electronic resource
- remote
- computer file
- Notes
- For voice and piano.
- Caption title.
- "Other songs generally accepted as by Dan Emmett are Jordan Is a Hard Road to Travel (1853)..."--Hist. of popular music in Amer. / Sigmund Spaeth, p. 95.
- "1853-1856, Reed, G.P., & Co., 13 Tremont [Boston]"--Early Amer. sheet music / Dichter & Shapiro, p. 225.
- Verses 3-6 printed on p. 5.
- Library's copy has trimmed edges.
- Additional physical form
- Also available in print.
- Subjects
- Afro-Americans--Songs and music
- Gospel music
- Identifier
- hdl:loc.award/rpbaasm.1232
- Repository
- Brown University Library Box A, Providence, RI, 02912
- Electronic resource
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.award/rpbaasm.1232
Last Updated: 07-31-2014