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"Wade in the Water" (Roud 5439) is the name of a Negro spiritual first published in ''New Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers'' (1901) by John Wesley Work II and his brother, Frederick J. Work (see Fisk Jubilee Singers). It is associated with the songs of the Underground Railroad. :''Wade in the water, children.'' :''Wade in the water.'' :''God's gonna trouble the water.'' ==Meaning== The song relates to both the Old and New Testaments. The verses reflect the Israelites' escape out of Egypt as found in Exodus:14. The chorus refers to healing: see John 5:4, "For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had." Many Internet sources and popular books claim that songs such as "Wade in the Water" contained explicit instructions to fugitive slaves on how to avoid capture and the route to take to successfully make their way to freedom.〔(Coded Slave Songs )〕 An example of this is cited in the book Pathways to Freedom: Maryland & the Underground Railroad. The book explains how Harriet Tubman used the song “Wade in the Water” to tell escaping slaves to get off the trail and into the water to make sure that the dogs employed by slavers lost their trail.〔http://pathways.thinkport.org/secrets/music2.cfm〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wade in the Water」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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