The 100 Most Popular Spirituals
Mahalia Jackson
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The 100 Most Popular Spirituals

Perhaps the 100 most popular spirituals are listed below in alphabetical order. The twenty five most popular are indicated with an asterisk (*). The titles are written in standard English rather than in Negro dialect.

A Little Talk With Jesus Makes It Right
*All God's Children Got Wings
All I Do, the Church Keep A Grumbling
By and By (When the Morning Comes)
Calvary
Can't You Live Humble?
Chilly Water
Come Here, Lord!
*Deep River
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?
Didn't Old Pharaoh Get Lost?>
Done Found My Lost Sheep
Don't Be Weary Traveler
*Every Time I Feel the Spirit

*Ezekiel Saw the Wheel

*Give Me That Old Time Religion
*Get on Board, Little Children
Give Me Jesus
Give Me Your Hand
*Go Down Moses
God's Going to Trouble the Waters
Great Camp Meeting in the Promised Land
Great Day
Going to Sing All Along the Way
*Hail, Mary, Don't You Weep
Hallelujah!
Heaven Bound Soldier
Humble Yourself, the Bell Done Rung
*Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
Feel Like My Time Ain't Long
Got a Home in the Rock
*Know the Lord's Laid His Hands on Me
Long to See That Day
I'm Going to Heaven Anyhow
I'm Going to Glory I'm Troubled in Mind
In That Great Getting Up Morning
*It's Me. O Lord
I Want to Be Ready
I Want to Die Easy When I Die
*Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
Jubilee
Keep Inching Along
Keep Me From Sinking Down
*Listen to the Lambs
*Little David Play on Your Harp
Look How They Done My Lord
*Lord, I Want to Be a Christian in a My Heart
Mary and Martha Just Gone Home
Mary Had a Baby. Yes Lord
My Lord Delivered Daniel
My Lord's a Writing All the Time
My Lord Says He's Going to Rain Down Fire

*My Lord, What a Morning

My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord
My Way Is Cloudy
*Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
O, Brother, Don't Get Weary
O, Gambler, Git Up Off of Your Knees
O, Rocks, Don't fall on Me
0, Wasn't That a Wide River?
0, My Good Lord, Show Me the Way
Old Ship of Zion
0, Yes, 0, Yes, Wail Until I Git on My Robe
Over the Crossing
Over My Head
Peter, Go Ring Them Bells
Poor Mourner's Got a Home at Last
Ride On, Moses
Rise, Mourner, Rise
Rise Up Shepherd and Follow
Roll the Old Chariot Along
*Roll, Jordan, Roll
Run, Mary, Run
Singing with a Sword in My Hand
Sinner, Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass
Somebody's Knocking at Your Door
*Sometiines I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Stand Still Jordan
*Steal Away Jesus

*Swing Low Sweet Chariot

There's A Meeting Here Tonight
To See God's Bleeding Lamb
Until I Reach a My Home
Up on the Mountain
*Walk in Jerusalem Just Like John
Walk, Mary. Down the Land
Walk Together Children
*We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder
Weary Traveler
*Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
What You Going to Do When the Lamp Burns Down?
When I Fall on My Knees
Where Shall I Be When the First Trumpet Sounds?
Who That a Coming Over Yonder?
Who Will Be a Witness for My Lord?
You Go, I Go With You
You Got. a Right
You May Bury Me in the East


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