Mary Had a Baby - Trad.

Описание: Beautiful spiritual collected St. Helena Island off the coast of South Carolina in the 1920s by Sierra Leonean musicologist Nicholas J. G. Ballanta and published in is collection St. Helena Island Spirituals in 1925.
Ballanta travelled widely around West Africa and in the U.S. collecting songs and studying African music and its links to European and American music.
This song's refrain refers to the Underground Railroad, a pathway to freedom for enslaved Africans in the 19th century, suggesting the song is from before the Civil War.
There are a range of lyrics but this one contains the following lyrics:

Mary had a baby, my Lord.
Mary had a baby, my Lord.
Mary had a baby, Mary had a baby,
Mary had a baby, my Lord.
The people keep coming but the train done gone

What did she name him, my Lord?
What did she name him, my Lord?
What did she name him, what did she name him,
what did she name him, my Lord?
The people keep coming but the train done gone

She named him King Jesus, my Lord.
She named him King Jesus, my Lord.
She named him King Jesus, she named him King Jesus,
she named him King Jesus, my Lord.
The people keep coming but the train done gone

Where was he born, my Lord?
Where was he born, my Lord?
Where was he born, where was he born,
where was he born, my Lord?
The people keep coming but the train done gone

Born in a manger, my Lord.
Born in a manger, my Lord.
Born in a manger, born in a manger,
born in a manger, my Lord.
The people keep coming but the train done gone