Civil War Sesquicentennial
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Music for Christmas: Mary Had a Baby
As far as anyone can tell, "Mary Had a Baby"
originated
among slaves on St. Helena Island, one of the South Carolina Sea Islands, sometime during the 1830s. Paul Robeson made this recording of it, with Laurence Brown on piano, in 1931.
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