"The Lord, by Moses, to Pharaoh said: Oh! let my people go If not, I'll smite your first-born dead—Oh! let my people go Oh! go down, Moses Away down to Egypt's land And tell King Pharaoh To let my people go."
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L.C. Lockwood stated in the sheet music that the song was from Virginia, dating from about 1853.
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