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Are there lyrics for Briggs' 'Going Ober The Mountains?' I searched YouTube and Levy.

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Terry,

Howe's 1849 Ethiopian Glee book has lyrics. here is the link: http://archive.org/stream/ethiopiangleeboo00howe#page/30/mode/2up

I've heard other more presentable lyrics, however, but not sure where they are from.

http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=112732

This is a link to Mudcat.org that had a discussion about the song a few years ago.  It seems like with a lot of the old melodies there were multiple versions of lyrics over the years.

The ones from the Emmett book are standard...and pretty ready to go. (see photos)

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