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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Tuesday, December 24, 2013
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