SongEra: Jim Crow

Lay Down, Body

Name: Lay Down, Body
Description: African-American Sea Island shout / spiritual ("lay down a little while / soul need restin'"); earliest documented on a c. 1960 recording, distinct from…

c. 1960(Approximate date)· Traditional (artist)

Artist: Traditional
Genre: ring shout

African-American Sea Island shout / spiritual ("lay down a little while / soul need restin'"); earliest documented on a c. 1960 recording, distinct from the 1867 "Lay dis body down."

Sources & citations

1.folkways.si.eduwebsite
2.historyonthenet.comwebsite
3.folkways-media.si.eduwebsite
4.walden.orgwebsite