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"I'm on my way (and I won't turn back)" is a traditional Gospel song. [1] It is described a typical "going-to-Canaan" song; and possibly an Underground Railroad song.[2]The lyrics begin "I'm on my way and I won't turn back, I'm on my way and I won't turn back, I'm on my way and I won't turn back; I'm on my way, great God, I'm on my way.
The lyrics describe a street preacher, a persona Billy's therapist says is a manic side of Billy's personality, triggered by stress and loss. As Billy sings, clowns from the freak show dance. Billy asks patrons of the nightclub to put him up for the night, but they refuse, knowing him to be a petty hustler.
Douglass similarly offers interesting comments but not clear evidence in My Bondage and Freedom: "A keen observer might have detected in our repeated singing of 'O Canaan, sweet Canaan, I am bound for the land of Canaan' something more than a hope of reaching heaven. We meant to reach the north – and the north was our Canaan.
Canaan Hymns or Songs of Canaan (Chinese: 迦南诗选; pinyin: Jiānán Shīxuǎn [1] [2]) is a collection of Chinese hymns composed by Lü Xiaomin, beginning in 1990. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Lü Xiaomin is a daughter of peasants of the Hui minority born in 1970, [ 5 ] who converted to Christianity. [ 3 ]
1999 – "Come and Go with Me to That Land" by Jesse L. Martin in an episode of the TV series The X-Files called "The Unnatural" 2013 – "Freedom Suite: Oh Freedom/Come and Go with Me to That Land/I'm on My Way to Freedom Land/Glory, Glory Hallelujah" by Sweet Honey in the Rock on the album A Tribute: Live! Jazz at Lincoln Center [8]
There's a Light That Enters Houses with No Other House in Sight is the eighth studio album by David Sylvian, consisting of a single hour-length composition.It features spoken word by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Franz Wright (who died under a year after the release of the album), as well as contributions from electronic multi-instrumentalist Fennesz [2] and pianist John Tilbury. [3]
"Where You Lead" is one of two Carole King/Toni Stern collaborations featured on the 1971 album Tapestry, the other being the #1 single "It's Too Late".King had written the music and the majority of the lyric for "Where You Lead" when she solicited the assistance of Stern, saying: "I can't write the bridge to this: if you can figure out the bridge you can get [co-writing] credit for the song."
"Stop Her on Sight (S.O.S.)" is a song written in 1966 by Albert Hamilton, Richard Morris, and Edwin Starr. [2] It was initially released by Starr as a single in the United States in January that year on Ric-Tic Records. [2] The track was released on Polydor Records in the UK in April 1966. [3]