Medley II: Lazy Bones - Scarecrow - Fat Li'l Feller - Wagon Wheels - Deep River - Ma Curly-Headed Baby - Carry Me Back to Green Pastures - Old Folks at Home

Paul Robeson: The Complete EMI Sessions 1928-1939

8 MINUTES AND 46 SECONDS • JUL 18 2008

Album Tracklist

1

Show Boat, Act 1: "Ol' Man River" (Live At the Dury Lane Theatre)

03:53

2

Since You Went Away, "Seems Lak To Me"

03:07

3

Down De Lover's Lane

03:03

4

Scandalize My Name

02:10

5

Sinner Please Doan' Let dis Harves' Pass

02:08

6

01:43

7

I Want to Be Ready

01:32

8

My Lord What a Mornin'

02:53

9

De Li'l Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep

03:30

10

Git On Board Li'l Children

01:17

11

Dere's No Hidin' Place

01:00

12

Plantation Songs (Part 1): So Early in the Morning - Carry Me Back to Old Virginia - Old Folks at Home - Goodnight Ladies

03:54

13

Plantation Songs (Part 2): Away Down South in Dixie - Poor Old Joe - Oh, Susanna - My Old Kentucky Home

04:18

14

Oh Rock Me Julie

01:35

15

Oh Didn't It Rain

01:22

16

03:51

17

Roll Away, Clouds (from "Virginia")

03:14

18

Sonny Boy (from the 1928 Lloyd Bacon's Musical Movie "The Singing Fool")

02:43

19

Little Pal (from the 1929 Lloyd Bacon's Musical Movie "Say It with Songs")

03:31

20

The Lonesome Road

02:45

21

Just Keepin' On

03:12

22

Mighty Lak' a Rose

03:27

23

03:21

24

02:13

25

3 Negro Songs: II. Exhortation. A Negro Sermon, "Remember, if a brudder smotes"

02:11

26

I Stood on the Ribber Jordan - Peter Go Ring Dem Bells

02:57

27

02:07

28

02:36

29

Old Folks at Home, "Swanee River"

03:20

30

03:11

31

My Old Kentucky Home

03:31

32

Show Boat, Act 1: "Ol' Man River" (Joe)

02:50

33

River Stay 'Way from My Door

03:30

34

03:33

35

Medley of Spirituals

07:47

36

My Heart is Where the Mohawk Flows Tonight

03:30

37

The Folks I Used to Know

02:53

38

Yes Lord, Oh Lord (Variation of "Mary Had a Baby")

02:17

39

03:01

40

Bear De Burden - All God's Chillun Got Wing

03:32

41

That's Why Darkies Were Born (from "George White’s Scandals of 1931")

02:41

42

When It's Sleepy Time Down South, "Sleepy Time Down South" (from the 1931 William A. Wellman's Movie "Safe in Hell")

03:27

43

02:36

44

Nearer My God, to Thee

04:16

45

Le Calvaire: "Il est au loin une colline" - Sung in English, "There is a green hill far away"

04:02

46

03:17

47

Ma Curly-Headed Babby

03:05

48

02:40

49

Roll the Old Chariot: "Oh, a drop of Nelson's blood"

02:45

50

Since You Went Away

03:10

51

Wid De Moon Moon Moon

03:32

52

Got the South in My Soul

03:03

53

Hush-A-Bye Lullaby, "Rock-a-bye Baby"

03:19

54

Round the Bend of the Road

02:57

55

Take Me Away from the River, "Song from the Viper"

03:00

56

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

02:51

57

02:10

58

02:30

59

02:48

60

3 Negro Songs: I. Swing Along, "Swing along, Chillun, along de lane"

03:22

61

Piccaninny Shoes

02:54

62

In a Narrow Street

02:49

63

Carry Me Back to Green Pastures

02:57

64

03:27

65

02:51

66

Medley I, Pt. 1: Roll De Ole Chariot - Mary Had a Baby - Swing Low - Heav'n, Heav'n

04:07

67

Medley I, Pt. 2: Carry me Back - Mighty Lak' a Rose - Round the Bend of the Road - River Stay 'Way From my Door - O'l Man River

04:09

68

Fat Li'l Fella Wid His Mammy's Eyes

02:04

69

Shortnin' Bread

01:10

70

03:22

71

02:40

72

Doan' You Cry Ma Honey

03:37

73

03:04

74

03:29

75

03:27

76

03:25

77

Piccaninny's Slumber Song

03:08

78

St. Louis Blues

03:33

79

Mammy's Little Kinky-Headed Boy

03:16

80

Little Man, You've Had a Busy Day

03:20

81

I Ain't Lazy, I'm Just Dreaming

02:51

82

Bandanna Ballads, Op. 22: IV. A Banjo Song, "I plays de banjo better now" (With marked rhythm)

03:08

83

Medley II: Lazy Bones - Scarecrow - Fat Li'l Feller - Wagon Wheels - Deep River - Ma Curly-Headed Baby - Carry Me Back to Green Pastures - Old Folks at Home

08:46

84

Love Song (from the 1935 Zoltán Korda's Film "Sanders of the River")

03:26

85

Congo Lullaby (from the 1935 Zoltán Korda's Film "Sanders of the River")

03:11

86

Canoe Song (from the 1935 Zoltán Korda's Film "Sanders of the River")

03:04

87

Killing Song (from the 1935 Zoltán Korda's Film "Sanders of the River")

02:26

88

03:19

89

02:30

90

De Ole Ark's A-Movering

01:05

91

Ezekiel Saw De Wheel

01:20

92

Joshua Fit De Battle Ob Jericho

02:02

93

Dat's All, "Honey"

02:20

94

Gloomy Sunday, "Hungarian Suicide Song"

02:48

95

Show Boat, Act 1: "Ol' Man River" (Film Version)

02:39

96

Ah Still Suits Me (from the the 1936 James Whale's Film "Show Boat")

02:49

97

Sleepy River (from the 1936 James Elder Wills' Film "Song of Freedom")

03:05

98

Lonely Road (from the 1936 James Elder Wills' Film "Song of Freedom")

03:20

99

Song of Freedom (from the 1936 James Elder Wills' Film "Song of Freedom")

02:42

100

The Black Emperor (from the 1936 James Elder Wills' Film "Song of Freedom")

02:50

101

Mam'selle Marie

01:57

102

Dere's No Hidin' Place

00:57

103

02:16

104

Passing By: "There is a lady sweet and kind"

02:24

105

01:53

106

01:35

107

My Way (from the the 1937 Thornton Freeland's Film "Jericho")

02:51

108

Golden River (from the the 1937 Thornton Freeland's Film "Jericho")

02:08

109

Wagon Song, "Ho! Ho!" (from the the 1937 Robert Stevenson's Film "King Solomon's Mines")

02:14

110

The Mountain Song, "Climbing up" (from the the 1937 Robert Stevenson's Film "King Solomon's Mines")

03:14

111

Lazin' (from the 1937 James Elder Wills' Film "Big Fella")

02:51

112

I Don't Know What's Wrong

03:22

113

Roll up Sailorman (from the 1937 James Elder Wills' Film "Big Fella")

02:17

114

You Didn't Oughta Do Such Things

02:18

115

Deep Desert (from the the 1937 Thornton Freeland's Film "Jericho")

03:01

116

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

02:24

117

Minstrel Man (Text by Langston Hughes)

00:30

118

02:44

119

Dere's a Man Goin' Round' Takin' Names

03:10

120

02:32

121

Work All De Summer

01:36

122

Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?

01:07

123

Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Sung in English)

03:29

124

All Through the Night

03:26

125

03:36

126

03:21

127

Porgy and Bess, Act 1 Scene 1: "Summertime" (Clara)

02:40

128

Porgy and Bess, Act 2 Scene 1: "It Take a Long Pull to Get There" (Jake)

03:07

129

Porgy and Bess, Act 2 Scene 2: "It Ain't Necessarily So" (Sportin' Life)

02:36

130

Porgy and Bess, Act 1 Scene 1: "A Woman Is a Sometime Thing" (Jake)

02:23

131

7 Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose: III. Just A-Wearyin' For You (Moderato)

02:39

132

Songs, Op. 29: I. At Dawning, I Love You, "When the down flames in the sky" (Con molta espressione)

02:25

133

Song of the Volga Boatmen

02:50

134

An Eriskay Love-Lilt

02:55

135

5 Popular Mexican Songs: I. Encantadora Maria

02:43

136

Goin' to Ride Up in De Chariot

01:03

137

Every Time I Feel de Spirit

01:19

138

02:29

139

Songs and Dances of Death: IV. The Field Marshal

02:24

140

David of the White Rock

03:28

141

02:31

142

Gypsy Songs, Op. 55, B. 104: IV. Songs My Mother Taught Me (Andante con moto) - arr. for Voice and Orchestra

02:16

143

02:39

144

Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes

03:28

145

Down de Lovers' Lane

02:30

146

5 Songs, Op. 1: No. 5, Berceuse, "Dors, mignon, près de ta mère!" (Sung in English)

02:07

147

Night (Russian Folk Song)

02:54

148

The Little Black Boy (Reading of William Blake's Poem)

02:20

149

Dear Old Southland

02:57

150

Jerusalem, on a Text by William Blake, Op. 208: "And did those feet in ancient time"

02:27

151

The Blind Ploughman

02:09

152

Chu Chin Chow, Act 2: The Cobbler's Song (Baba Mustafa)

02:42

153

Oh Could I But Express in Song

01:53

154

Love At My Heart

02:09

155

02:24

156

The Rosary: "The hours I spent with thee, dear heart"

01:40

157

A Perfect Day: "When you come to the end of a perfect day"

02:36

158

Absent: "Sometimes, between long shadows on the grass"

02:12

159

Black Eyes, Russian Gipsy Song (Arr. Rosa Newmarch)

02:33

160

Oh Promise Me: "Oh, promise me that someday you and I"

02:39

161

Plaisir d'amour: "Plaisir d'amour ne dure qu'un moment" (Molto lento)

03:42

162

02:02

163

She Is Far from the Land (Irish Folk Song)

02:52

164

03:29

165

3 Songs, Op. 3: No. 2, Now Sleeps, "Now sleeps the crimson petal" (Slow, with emphasis)

02:24

166

Sea Fever: "I must go down to the seas again" (Lento)

02:12

167

Ebenezer, "Ton-y Botel"

02:33

168

Hen Wlad fy Nhadau (National Anthem of Wales)

02:26

169

02:30

170

Elijah, Op. 70, Pt. 2: No. 14, Aria, "Lord God of Abraham" - No. 11, Baal Chorus, "Baal, we cry to Thee" (Rehearsal)

02:20

Paul Robeson: The Complete EMI Sessions 1928-1939

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Medley II: Lazy Bones - Scarecrow - Fat Li'l Feller - Wagon Wheels - Deep River - Ma Curly-Headed Baby - Carry Me Back to Green Pastures - Old Folks at Home

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