[Music]
If our fathers want to go,
Why don't they come along?
I belong to this band, Hallelujah.
Hallelujah, hallelujah,
I belong to this band, hallelujah.
The tune was first printed in the _Union Harp_ as recorded by S. M.
Denson of Alabama. Subsequent verses are made by the use of "mothers",
"sisters," etc. That the negroes used this formula is shown in _White
Spirituals_, 247. The refrain "I belong to this band, hallelujah"
reappears in 'I Belong to This Band (B)' in this collection.
No. 221
LONG-SOUGHT HOME, CHH 159