African American spirituals...This site is devoted to traditional African American spirituals, and some information is given about the early Gospel songs. Scroll all the way down to listen to representative types.

Celebration of Negro Spirituals, Part I: audio, video and mp3 ...takes a long time to download (hour long program)

Folk Songs for the Five Points is a celebration of cultural diversity and change, using “folk songs” as a metaphor to explore immigration and the formation of identity in New York’s Lower East Side...a digital arts project that allows you to create your own “folk songs” by remixing and overlaying a range of sounds taken from New York’s Lower East Side.

"Great Day" A capella Negro spirituals ...click on "play all songs"

* Mudcat Café Music Foundation, - ...a site for older students that allows keyword and title searching to over 6000 folk songs and includes midi files for some of them

National Children's Folksong Repository...Please record your American Playground Poetry, the folksongs, jump rope chants, kiddy rhymes, circle games, play parties, call and response songs, using your ipod, shoe phone, or computer....IT WILL GO INTO THE NCFR online LIBRARY

Pharoah's army got drowned ... Performed by: "colored quartet" (name unknown)

Shanties and Sea Songs - the work songs that were used on the square-rigged ships of the Age of Sail. Their rhythms coordinated the efforts of many sailors hauling on lines. Much loved by modern sailors and folk musicians, they are rarely used as work songs today.

Swing low, sweet chariot ... Performed by: The Southern Four
* Woody Guthrie and the Archive of America - highlights letters between Woody Guthrie and staff of the Archive of American Folk Song...His written and, occasionally, illustrated reflections on his past, his art, his life in New York City, and the looming Second World War provide unique insight into