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    Follow The Drinking Gourd

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    This song provides instructions for escaping slaves to follow the drinking gourd, which is a metaphor for the Big Dipper and North Star, to find their way north toward freedom. It describes following the river banks and dead trees as clues along the journey, and mentions key landmarks like where the great big river meets the little river, where an old man would help carry them to freedom if they followed the drinking gourd.

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    This song provides instructions for escaping slaves to follow the drinking gourd, which is a metaphor for the Big Dipper and North Star, to find their way north toward freedom. It describes following the river banks and dead trees as clues along the journey, and mentions key landmarks like where the great big river meets the little river, where an old man would help carry them to freedom if they followed the drinking gourd.

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    This song provides instructions for escaping slaves to follow the drinking gourd, which is a metaphor for the Big Dipper and North Star, to find their way north toward freedom. It describes following the river banks and dead trees as clues along the journey, and mentions key landmarks like where the great big river meets the little river, where an old man would help carry them to freedom if they followed the drinking gourd.

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    Follow The Drinking Gourd

    Uploaded by

    Laura Patterson
    This song provides instructions for escaping slaves to follow the drinking gourd, which is a metaphor for the Big Dipper and North Star, to find their way north toward freedom. It describes following the river banks and dead trees as clues along the journey, and mentions key landmarks like where the great big river meets the little river, where an old man would help carry them to freedom if they followed the drinking gourd.

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    Follow The Drinking Gourd

    LYRICS
    VERSE 1
    When the sun comes back,
    and the first quail calls,
    Follow the drinking gourd
    The old man is awaiting for to carry you to freedom
    If you follow the drinking gourd.
    CHORUS
    Follow the drinking gourd,
    Follow the drinking gourd,
    For the old man is awaiting for to carry you to freedom
    If you follow the drinking gourd.
    VERSE 2
    The river bank will make a mighty good road
    The dead trees show you the way
    Left foot, peg foot, traveling on
    Follow the drinking gourd.
    CHORUS
    VERSE 3
    The river ends between two hills,
    Follow the drinking gourd,
    There's another river on the other side,
    Follow the drinking gourd.
    CHORUS
    VERSE 4
    Where the great big river meets the little river
    Follow the drinking gourd
    The old man is awaiting for to carry you to freedom
    If you follow the drinking gourd.

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