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Bound for Canaan Land/ Bound for Canaan's Land
Spiritual and Gospel Hymn;
ARTIST: Spiritual found on several on-line sites (no attribution)
Jubilee Singers: Sweet Canaan: http://books.google.com/books?id=yWX4vEJ2s5EC&pg=PA243&lpg=PR5&vq=contents&dq=moses+
sinful+army&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html
CATEGORY: Traditional Shape-Note Gospel;
DATE: 1800s;
RECORDING INFO: Bound for the Land of Canaan
OTHER NAMES: "Bound for Canaan's Land"
RELATED TO: "Bound for Canaan's Land" "Bound for The Promised Land"
SOURCES: Mudcat;
NOTES: "Bound For Canaan Land" or "Bound For Canaan's Land" is an African-American spiritual from the 1800s and I've found several reference in the mid-1800's to the song (without lyrics) and to "Boun' for de Promise Lan' " or "Bound For The Promised Land" which was sung by Tubman circa 1840. Both titles- Canaan's Land/Promised Land have become interchangeable.
Thre are a number of songs found in revival hymnals in the mid-1800s titled "I'm Bound for the Land of Canaan" or "Bound for the Land of Canaan."
A different but related spiritual recorded by Willie Mae Ford Smith and also Famous Blue Jay Singers is titled "Bound For Canaan's Land."
Bound For Canaan Land- Spiritual
Where're you bound?
Bound for Canaan land
O, you must not lie
You must not steal
You must not take God’s name in vain
I’m bound for Canaan land
Your horse is white, your garment is bright
You look like a man of war
Raise up your head with courage bold
For your race is almost run
How you know?
Jesus told me
Although you see me going so
I’m bound for Canaan land
I have trials here below
I’m bound for Canaan land
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