SongEra: Jim Crow

Pharaoh's Host Got Lost

Name: Pharaoh's Host Got Lost
Description: African-American spiritual / plantation melody ("Didn't Old Pharaoh Get Lost?") first documented in print in 1882; the McIntosh County Shouters perform it…

c. 1882(Approximate date)· Traditional (artist)

Artist: Traditional
Genre: ring shout

African-American spiritual / plantation melody ("Didn't Old Pharaoh Get Lost?") first documented in print in 1882; the McIntosh County Shouters perform it as a ring shout.

Sources & citations

1.hymnary.orgwebsite
2.archive.orgwebsite
3.negrospirituals.comwebsite
4.folkways-media.si.eduwebsite