Wade in the Water - Joyce Katzberg / White Rose Music
Channel: Joyce Katzberg - Sing4Peace
Date: 08/03/2023

Traditional Spiritual/Freedom Song
Performer: Joyce Katzberg
recorded live at Stone Soup Coffeehouse, Pawtucket, RI, USA
September, 2004
White Rose Music
P.O. Box 187
Warren, RI, USA 02885
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This is a traditional Spiritual "zipper" song, which means that verses can be changed to address the needs of the moment. This is how I sang it for this particular occasion. Two verses here were originally part of a song called "No More Living Under the Cloud" written by Bill Harley with his Wife, Debbie Block. 

Wade in the water, wade in the water children!
Wade in the water, children - 
'Cuz God's gonna trouble up the water.

Up in the mountains and down by the sea 
People all over just want to be free

I'm all ready now how about you?
Let's build a new world and see it through...

Who's that yonder, dressed in red?
Must be the ones that Phil Berrigan led...

Freedom is a mighty chain
You know that every link, it bears a prisoner's name...