SongEra: Jim Crow

Death Have Mercy

Name: Death Have Mercy
Description: Traditional African-American sacred dirge ("Spare Me Over Another Year"), documented in a 1959 Alan Lomax field recording of Vera Ward Hall in Livingston…

c. 1959(Approximate date)· Traditional (artist)

Artist: Traditional
Genre: spiritual

Traditional African-American sacred dirge ("Spare Me Over Another Year"), documented in a 1959 Alan Lomax field recording of Vera Ward Hall in Livingston, Alabama.

Sources & citations

1.archive.culturalequity.orgwebsite
2.egrove.olemiss.eduwebsite
3.archive.culturalequity.orgwebsite