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NEGRO YOUTH SPEAKS
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Father Abraham
“Tell it”

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Words and melody from "Calhoun Plantation Songs.” Collected and edited by Emily Hallowell. Arranged by H. T. Burleigh. Reprinted by permission of G. Schirmer Co., from Afro-American Folk Songs, by H. E. Krehbiel, 1914.

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