“Chinese Soldiers’ Song” Sheet Music (pdf). “Chinese Soldiers’ Song” Karaoke (midi with lyrics). Performer: Paul Robeson. Lyrics: Traditional. Tune: Traditional. Farewell, darling, I must go. Let me not be late. With my comrades, meet the foe At the Northern Gate. China’s sons, let all see How we fight for liberty. Fellow comrades, one and all, …
“Water Boy” Sheet Music (pdf). “Water Boy” Karaoke (midi with lyrics). Performer: Paul Robeson. Lyrics: Traditional. Tune: Traditional. Water Boy, Where are you hiding? If you don’t a-come, Gonna tell-a your Mammy. Hmm. Water Boy!
“There Is a Balm in Gilead” Sheet Music (pdf). “There Is a Balm in Gilead” Karaoke (midi with lyrics). Performer: Paul Robeson. Lyrics: Traditional. Tune: Traditional. There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole; There is a balm in Gilead to heal the sin-sick soul. Sometimes, I feel discouraged and think my …
“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” Sheet Music (pdf). “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” Karaoke (midi with lyrics). Performer: Paul Robeson. Lyrics: Wallace Willis. Tune: Wallace Willis. Swing low, sweet chariot, Coming for to carry me home; Swing low, sweet chariot, Coming for to carry me home. I looked over Jordan, and what did I see, Coming for …
“Steal Away” Sheet Music (pdf). “Steal Away” Karaoke (midi with lyrics). Performer: Paul Robeson. Lyrics: Wallace Willis. Tune: Wallace Willis. Steal away, steal away, steal away to Jesus; Steal away, steal away home; I can’t get long to stay here. My Lord calls me; He calls me by the thunder. The trumpet sounds within my …
“Spring Song” Sheet Music (pdf). “Spring Song” Karaoke (midi with lyrics). Performer: Paul Robeson. Lyrics: Harry Schachter. Tune: Earl Robinson. Oh, I wonder will we be at war this spring. Will we be fighting while the robins sing? Will bayonets be a-bristling, and bullets do the whistling, While the world is all in bloom in …
“St. Louis Blues” Sheet Music (pdf). “St. Louis Blues” Karaoke (midi with lyrics). Performer: Paul Robeson. Lyrics: W. C. Handy. Tune: W. C. Handy. Got de St. Louis Blues. Just blue as I can be. Dat gal got a heart Lak a rock cast in the sea, Or else she wouldn’t gone So far from …
“Song of the Volga Boatmen” Sheet Music (pdf). “Song of the Volga Boatmen” Karaoke (midi with lyrics). Performer: Paul Robeson. Lyrics: Traditional. Tune: Traditional. Ey, ukhnem! Ey, ukhnem!* Once more, boys, and yet once more! Ey, ukhnem! Ey, ukhnem! Once more, boys, and yet once more! As along the shores we run, Sing our shanty …
“The Song of Freedom” Sheet Music (pdf). “The Song of Freedom” Karaoke (midi with lyrics). Performer: Paul Robeson. Lyrics: Henrik Ege. Tune: Eric Ansell. O, lead thy people to freedom; O, lead thy people to freedom; O, Muziya, the mighty one, Lord of the sun and moon, O, lead thy people to freedom; O, lead …
“Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” Sheet Music (pdf). “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” Karaoke (midi with lyrics). Performer: Paul Robeson. Lyrics: Traditional. Tune: Traditional. Sometimes I feel like a motherless child; Sometimes I feel like a motherless child; Sometimes I feel like a motherless child A long ways from home, a …
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“Short’nin’ Bread” Sheet Music (pdf). “Short’nin’ Bread” Karaoke (midi with lyrics). Performer: Paul Robeson. Lyrics: Traditional. Tune: Traditional. Put on the skillet, put on the lid, Mammy’s goin’ to bake a little short’nin’ bread. That ain’t all she’s goin’ to do; Mammy’s goin’ to make a little coffee, too. Mammy’s little baby loves short’nin’, short’nin’; …
“Scandalize My Name” Sheet Music (pdf). “Scandalize My Name” Karaoke (midi with lyrics). Performer: Paul Robeson. Lyrics: Traditional. Tune: Traditional. I met my brother the other day; I gave him my right hand. An’ jus’ as soon as ever my back was turned, he scandalize’ my name. Now, you call that a brother? No! No! …
“Riding the Dragon” Sheet Music (pdf). “Riding the Dragon” Karaoke (midi with lyrics). Performer: Paul Robeson. Lyrics: Traditional. Tune: Traditional. Sun arising, red and bright, Brother rides a horse to the mountain height; I ride a dragon dark far o’er the sea; There, my bride is awaiting me. Tài yáng chū lái yī diăn hóng …
“The Riddle Song” Sheet Music (pdf). “The Riddle Song” Karaoke (midi with lyrics). Performer: Paul Robeson. Lyrics: Traditional. Tune: Traditional. I gave my love a cherry that had no stone; I gave my love a chicken that had no bone; I told my love a story that had no end; I gave my love a …
“The Purest Kind of a Guy” Sheet Music (pdf). “The Purest Kind of a Guy” Karaoke (midi with lyrics). Performer: Paul Robeson. Lyrics: Marc Blitzstein. Tune: Marc Blitzstein. [Spoken] I wish to sing a song about a certain kind of a guy. [Sung] I ain’t a readin’ man; I ain’t a thinkin’ man; An eatin’, …
“Old Black Joe” Sheet Music (pdf). “Old Black Joe” Karaoke (midi with lyrics). Performer: Paul Robeson. Lyrics: Stephen Foster. Tune: Stephen Foster. Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay; Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away; Gone from the earth to a better land I know, I hear their …
“The Peat Bog Soldiers” Sheet Music (pdf). “The Peat Bog Soldiers” Karaoke (midi with lyrics). Performer: Paul Robeson. Lyrics: Johann Esser and Wolfgang Langhoff. Tune: Rudi Goguel. Far and wide, as the eye can wander, Heath and moor are everywhere; Not a bird sings out to cheer us; Oaks are standing gaunt and bare. We …
“Dar’s One More Ribber for to Cross” Sheet Music (pdf). “Dar’s One More Ribber for to Cross” Karaoke (midi with lyrics). Performer: Paul Robeson. Lyrics: James Hosey. Tune: Thos. P. Westendorf. Ole Noah once he built de ark; dar’s one more Ribber for to cross; And patched it up wid hick’ry bark; dar’s one more …
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“Old Folks at Home” Sheet Music (pdf). “Old Folks at Home” Karaoke (midi with lyrics). Performer: Paul Robeson. Lyrics: Stephen Foster. Tune: Stephen Foster. Way down upon the Swanee River, Far, far away, That’s where my heart is turning ever; There’s where the old folks stay. All up and down the whole creation, Sadly I …
“Oh! Susanna” Sheet Music (pdf). “Oh! Susanna” Karaoke (midi with lyrics). Performer: Paul Robeson. Lyrics: Stephen Foster. Tune: Stephen Foster. I’ve been all over everywhere, Susannah dear, for you; My banjo strings, they speak your name so lovely and so true; Your face is in the whirling wind as lightning in the sky; Your voice …
