You can't really hear the lyrics super well to this next one, but I wanted to post it b/c it's such an awesome rendition! The chorus of this song goes "I'm gonna lay down my burden / down by the riverside, down by the riverside, down by the riverside / I'm gonna lay down my sword and shield / down by the riverside/ gonna study war no more." (Quakers LOVE this one!)
And this last one - well, I'm not a huge fan of Beyonce's rendition. But I think it's really interesting that she did a recording of this!
One of the things that really strikes me about this is that a lot of the songs that reference Jerusalem and The Jordan River (at least in the U.S. context) are African-American spirituals, many of which were born out of slavery. I have my own theories here, but why do you all think this might be the case?
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