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Eva Cassidy
Wade In The Water
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“Wade in the Water” (Roud 5439) is the name of an African-American spiritual first published in New Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers (1901) by John Wesley Work II and his brother, Frederick J. Work (see Fisk Jubilee Singers).
The main chorus is:
:Wade in the water.
:Wade in the water children.
:Wade in the water.
:God’s gonna trouble the water.
The song relates to both the Old and New Testaments. The verses reflect the Israelites escape out of Egypt as found in Exodus:14. The chorus refers to healing: see John 5:4, “For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.“
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Read on...Song lines: ♪ Wade in the Water ... And God's gonna trouble the Water ... God's gonna trouble the Water ♫
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