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39078	Odum, Howard Washington	Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes			.txt	text/plain	38108	3136	89	giving the expression of a present-day negro leader toward the songs of more rhymed words in the present-day negro song than there was in the dialect of the older songs is purer than those of the present-day negro. negroes who sing know a great many songs--in fact, all of their regular sing the church songs, it is very evident that many of the younger negroes negroes of to-day songs have arisen in much the same way. expression, so common in negro songs, "O my Lord", seems to have been common songs of the negroes from the time of slavery to the present day. "Old Satan" as found in the songs of the slave and the negro of to-day:[3] man_." So in another song the negro sings of the _sinners_ and _mourners_. the present song; this is due to the fact that the negro of to-day sings In his songs to-day the negro says:	./cache/39078.txt	./txt/39078.txt