The group of musicians in the video above are playing in Nairobi, Kenya! Often performed as a Christmas carol, this song is an African-American spiritual with roots in oral tradition.
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Go, tell it on the mountain
over the hills and everywhere!
Go, tell it on the mountain
that Jesus Christ is born!
While shepherds kept their watching
o'er silent flocks by night,
behold throughout the heavens
there shone a Holy light.
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The shepherds feared and trembled
when, lo! Above the Earth
rang out the angel chorus
that hailed our Savior's birth.
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Down in a lowly manger
our humble Christ was born,
and brought us all salvation
that blessed Christmas morn.
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African-American spiritual song from oral tradition.
First published by John Wesley Work, Jr., 1909.
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