SongEra: Jim Crow

Rockin' Jerusalem

Name: Rockin' Jerusalem
Description: Traditional African-American spiritual (first line "Church gettin' higher!"; refrain "O Mary, O Martha… ring dem bells"), earliest documented in John W…

c. 1940(Approximate date)· Traditional (artist)

Artist: Traditional
Genre: spiritual

Traditional African-American spiritual (first line "Church gettin' higher!"; refrain "O Mary, O Martha… ring dem bells"), earliest documented in John W. Work III's 1940 collection "American Negro Songs."

Sources & citations

1.hymnary.orgwebsite
2.folkways.si.eduwebsite
3.archive.orgwebsite