What I found: The lyrics tell about the Gospel of John, Chapter 5.1 in the King John version, where you can find "Trouble the water". And it symbolizes the tricks by escaping from slavery on the underground railroads: wading in the water will hinder the Southern States massa's dogs following. "Moses" means the famous Harriet Tubman, and the Jordan - no Jordan in Egypt, or? - means the river Ohio. The people in red, white, blue? The colours of the Northern States flag ...
SO what we don't have to answer to black or white other than albinos and someother skin alment. No you didn't come from the niger river and I am not a slave owner trader of percepitcate in the above take credate for something YOU do for GOD because after all? Who wrote this song poor you have more rights in this county than whitey and your still black power bull shit!!! Yes you are own up to your whining ass. Lying is not with God of God or For God. Know it and get right.
@MeBTrollin I gather you are black and you're provoking a response. Racism is kept alive by division. We are all human beings and the people who have suffered most are often the most spiritual. Blessings to all mankind.
Don't know why everyone's bothering to go on about the history. Whether it's about African Americans and Slavery or the Israelites escaping Egypt is not affecting the people watching. People looked at it because it's a great song and Eva Cassidy has a beautiful voice. It should be left at that, and as a point of information, if it's really nessesary, it is about the Israelites but the African American slaves sung it working as well and it has meaning for both races. I'm white and Irish :)
We live in a age of religious/ethnic tolerance, my fellow whites to those of you who still hate blacks, STOP. Our ancestors in America invented our own hatred of blacks through the slave codes. Shall we make the same mistake they did? Why do some of us refuse to learn and accept these men/women as our brothers? I no longer see race or religion, all men and women are my brothers and sisters, let history teach us what we did wrong let us grow as people, let us grow.
I heard that this song was a way of covertly explaining a route of excape for slaves. It was apparently about following the water up until the rapids (God's gonna trouble the water). At the point of the rapids you would find safety and freedom. The title 'Wade in the water' was to mislead prying ears to believe it meant baptism as the captors were devout members of the Anglican church. We can stay with our past ignorance or move on and develop better attitudes.Our choice.
Thank you for uploading this lovely video. The photographs are wonderful and I really appreciate the explainations of how the stripes are formed. Inspirational stuff. Cheers.
Lovely song and so beautifully sung by a spiritual woman..She puts such feeling into it.
Thank you for uploading this lovely video. The photographs are wonderful and I really appreciate the explainations of how the stripes are formed. Inspirational stuff. Cheers
Would everyone please SHUT THE HELL UP with all the mud-slinging and accusations of 'racism'? This is Eva Cassidy we're listening to. Hello? Does that not ring a bell? This woman wanted peace in the world.
People who take credit for the work of others, just because of an imaginary community, be it based on skin colour, ethnicity, nation of birth, gender, sexuality - do so because they have absolutely nothing going for them. Go out and live, then talk about it.
Ignoring all the ridiculous comments....This woman was AWESOME and she did JUSTICE to this song! I had never heard of her until 10 minutes ago when I went from the late great Peggy Lee singing her signature song "Fever" then hearing Eva's version and she RIPPED it and made it her own with those GOD GIVEN VOCALS! May you forever rest in peace you beautiful angel...lord knows your vocal ability is a tribute to black gospel from which you were learned. Thank you Jesus for having blessed us with Eva
The 15 people who dislike this video, must truly be some of the most hating, most evil people to walk this earth, if they can ignore the not only the history and the meaning of this song, but also the igenious ways gospel was used a secret code to communicate. Those 15 people are truly , to the full extent of the meaning of the word, haters!
This song is in reference to the old and new testaments. All humans suffer, and God wants to heal us. It's an invitation to come to God and let Him heal our hearts of the wounds our enemies inflict upon us.
Eva Cassidy was a humble young woman with a heart full of love for God's world and ALL his children.
This song, like so many she sang, speaks to all who will listen.
The Devil comes in ALL colors. Eva suffered terrible pain and early death. she didn't own slaves.
Anyone who would criticize Eva Cassidy for singing this song should have their head examined. Eva was incredibly talented, deeply devout, and perhaps one of the only "pure souls" in the DC metro area while she was alive. Eva was an Earth-bound Angel for her all-too-short life, and she was all about love and bringing people together.
I know that "haters gotta hate", but if you're hating on Eva, you are barking up the wrong tree...
Does anyone else think that drawing a comparison between a white woman singing a gospel choon and the sins (some) white people committed in times of slavery is totally disrespectful to those people who lived as slaves? I think it's pretty beautiful that we share each other and our music more healthily now.
I have white skin, my wife has brown skin, and neither of us gives much of a fuck where the music in our house comes from. We sing it in the shower just as bad as each other!
Eva, just so beautiful, whoever said Eva has destroyed this song because she is white and it should be sung as an anthem by a black person, should just get over it. Black people sing white's songs too - so what? Music is a free medium which everyone should enjoy. Eva is so soulful, with a perfect voice for every musical genre
Such a beautiful video, showing that no matter how far we go with arts, the nature will always give a better show... and people here fighting about their stupid "differences"... that's not only sad, but shows how small the human race is.
God is gonna trouble the water like he did back in the day the Israelites were freed from the land of Egypt ~ only this time it's gonna bring the brothers together; peace and safety shall they say in Jerusalem... Yeah. And that means Rosh Hashana; the sound of the Last Trump is nigh. Check out these prophecies soon to be brought ta pass. (Isaiah 11; Ezekial 38 in the good OT and 1 Thes. 5 and 1 Cor. 15 in the New...)
God is gonna trouble the water like he did back in the day the Israelites were freed from the land of Egypt ~ only this time it's gonna bring the brothers together; peace and safety shall they say in Jerusalem... Yeah. And that means Rosh Hashana; the sound of the Last Trump is nigh. Check out these prophecies soon to be brought ta pass. (Isaiah 11; Ezekial 38 in the good OT and 1 Thes. 5 in the New...)
This song wasn't written until 1900s. It has nothing to do with slavery.
The verses reflect the Israelites escape out of Egypt as found in Exodus:14.[1] 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."
@bttharesmith15 Um, dead wrong. The publication of this song didn't happen until 1903, when it was mildly accepted for a black to publish anything. This tune and the messages it entailed existed since the mid 1700s, alluding to the ships coming with blue, white, and red uniforms which then took black people from africa to be slaves. Then its messages changed as the slaves used it to spread messages via music in the colonies and 19th century America.
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@chocolatepockyluv ... What im sayin is this song is black heritage and white ppl shouldnt capitalize on that. white ppl always taking things away from us.
@xsmiley3589 I doubt Eva personally made much money from this recording. Eva didn't take anything away from black people. Far from it! If anything, she's giving great respect to black heritage by singing it the way it was meant to be sung.
@xsmiley3589 None of us deserve anything we have in this life. Were it not for Jesus, all any of us deserve is eternal death, to become a pile of ashes, if you will. However, by God's grace we are allowed to live because we were bought with a price, Jesus' death on the cross. Therefore, any talents we have we owe to Him. Eva was blessed with a talent for singing that is beyond measure. It would have been a sin for her not to record this great song just because people like you would be offended.
Y'all forgot the true meaning of this song and the reason of its existence it wasn't for icebergs and all that crap it was written to form communication between the black slaves who wanted to be free
@SqueakyIsMadeOfLove thats because eva was legendary at re-arranging already amazing songs. many of her songs are 'covers' but she had this knack of totally transforming songs & making them ALL her own. singers that cover songs nowadays should take a minute to listen to eva before they churn out pansy versions of an already made song. over the rainbow, autumn leaves, people get ready, to name but a few songs that eva re-worked into her style, making them sound utterly different to the originals.
If someone believes that Eva Cassidy "destroyed" this song, they should listen to all the other songs she has destroyed - she has blown a lot of songs out of the water, probably in more genres than just about any other singer. : ) It's not that her version was necessarily the best (though many would say so) but her incredible range. I wish she was still around destroying songs.
she took a song we made to get away from the evils of the white devil and literally destroyed it, this song is not a happy song it has a meaning and a root
@Bksbest21 "she took a song we made to get away from the evils of the white devil and literally destroyed it..."
Guess what? We have people of European decent singing traditional Western African music; African Americans singing Italian Opera, Argentinians playing surf music, Charlie Pride singing Kentucky Mountain music...and there is absolutely *NOTHING* you can do about it. I think you know it, too We WILL NOT perform in the boxes you assign us. . The world is passing you by Bksbest21.
@Constavlos You seem to have quite a few facts misplaced. Firstly Christianity is not a white religion, its a Semetic religion and was INTRODUCED to blacks by whites. Also ANY historical work on slave religion after the revolutionary war stresses the vast differences in "white" and "black" christianity. This song was used by slaves who did NOT travel on teh under ground railroad, seeing as how that was only available in certain regions. Most stops on the "railroad" were presented by blacks.
ok, you're being nitty. so technically christianity isn't a semetic religion, christianity (the bible & the christ) were created by the mother/catholic church, based/stolen from the semetic jews, who reject the "son of god/saviour" religions. are the romans/italians not 'white'? underground railround, i just use as a term for a route of escape the slaves used ;) i see what you mean though, cheers for picking me up on that one.
@Constavlos why not go on some other site to both people with your ignorance of a well known religion? appreciate the music and if it has a religious connotation for you, that's great. if it doesn't, that's fine too. meanwhile, stop raping my eyes with your stupidity.
@Bksbest21 bro, your making our race seem ignorant,as if all the wanna ge thugs aren't enough. and study your history; yes we used songs like this to escape slavery but they had double meaning! so stop being so sensitive
@xelasan1 How is an honest expression of distaste for whites trying to acquire black culture a form of ignorance? One must remain true to the HISTOROCITY of the songs and that means understanding that they were AGAINST the white oppressor. Them singing this music understandably lacks true meaining since it is against them to begin with. Furthmore i think the author of the comment understood that the song had a double meaning and that is why he commented, WHITES singing this song defiles its trut
@Bksbest21 People like YOU, are the cancer of our race. Nor you or I have or ever will be slaves!! The white people today ow us nothing. But you and I owe it to our for fathers to get out there and make change. The only way to stop racism is to kill it from both ends. I am a black man and have faced my fair helpings of prejudice, but I will be damn if I hold an entire race countable for a select few. Times are changing and you cling to the past living in a dead social order look to the light bro
@protectandserv Beautifully written from the heart and the head. I remember seeing footage of Rodney King being beaten up by white police. I was horrified. My partner at the time a lovely guy whoose parents came to London from Jamaica said 'Don't I bleed'. We all bleed. Also believing in reincarnation we've all been everything., all races, all genders, good and bad............
@protectandserv Not only "black people" experience racism. I am a white female, and I have been harassed by kids in school, because I was white, and not black. I was told that it was because of my family that their family was treat so poorly, and it was torture. I wasn't even alowed to get chocolate milk in elementary school, because it was "only for black people" (I hate drinking plane milk). They didn't even know that I was related to a slave (as told by my sister), and now I am with someone
@protectandserv who is the father of my son, who finds it offensive for "blacks and mexicans to complain about being forced to leave their homes for slavery and that they want to go home". The father of my son and love of my life is Native American, his "people" were forced off their land and put in small reservation camps, they CAN'T go home. There home was taken...
The Staples Singers had a great version, & Big Mama Thornton did an R&B take.
Acappella Spirituals do a beautiful gospel rendition, & Ramsey Lewis did a jazz cover. Even Herb Alpert did a bossa nova.
But 4 me, the definitive 1 is Sweet Honey in the Rock's, recorded live @ Carnegie Hall (esp famous now bcs used in soundtrack for an ep of Grey's Anatomy); that one's heart-stopping powerful.
I love this version of Wade in the water. Her voice is so soulful. If you listen to her for the first time, she does sound like she's black. However, soul has no color. This is honestly the best I've ever heard this song. This song is true to this negro spiritual.
@kajdabash and ' hit the road jack', 'stray cats strut',' why dont you do right'... and a hundred other songs with this chord progression : ) I like to mix them and have the audience sing along. It's funny how many songs have this bass line, especially!
if any of u know the original tune sang and the singer please reply or message me, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am not black but, it is sort of attracts me, the sound and the feel of togetherness.
@cartergirl3of3 Lady Ga Ga wows many people. Why would you devastate many young girls/children for someone at peace? I'm personally not a fan of hers, but millions are.
this song is so awsome :) if you like this song ( of course you do lol ) check out the wade in the water with harry and alfie and hannah vee bee ect. its so good :)
I really really love the song especially because it has been a kind of code between the slaves. Its a very good and true store. And then i just love this relaxing music :)
Shutup whoever says she doesnt have soul in this song! This song is full of it, you must be deaf ! I dont no much about the lyrics of what they mean, but if you dont like this song then your a fool .
@Hutzjohn Not aware that Cassidy was a dame. You talk out of your anal orifice. Please regale us with your aphorisms. We could do with a laugh after listening to the execrable shriekings of Cassidy!!!!
@ronneesam Dame is a typing error it should read DAMN, And I would guess that you think you're really brilliant using words uncommon to everyday conversations. The only thing bigger than your ego is your stupidity for failing to recognize Cassidy as a great singer. Way too bad you wasn't smart enough to recognize a typo. enough said here.
great song and voice
newstartish 6 days ago
What I found: The lyrics tell about the Gospel of John, Chapter 5.1 in the King John version, where you can find "Trouble the water". And it symbolizes the tricks by escaping from slavery on the underground railroads: wading in the water will hinder the Southern States massa's dogs following. "Moses" means the famous Harriet Tubman, and the Jordan - no Jordan in Egypt, or? - means the river Ohio. The people in red, white, blue? The colours of the Northern States flag ...
Better ideas?
KonradGFischer 1 week ago
@KonradGFischer - Sounds great! Thanks!
pmatas 1 week ago
@pmatas
What I forgot to say: Great song, wonderfull performed!
KonradGFischer 1 week ago
I've always loved this song :)
hungergameswannabe 1 week ago
again! again! again!
hungergameswannabe 1 week ago
Can't help tapping my foot to the beat!
JandaBeCool 2 weeks ago
@JandaBeCool samee here!
cagetheangelz 1 week ago
REALLY NICE WORK!
dbator08 1 month ago
I love this song and you did a great job with the video, Pmatas! :)
Here0nMars 2 months ago
@Here0nMars... Thanks! :)
pmatas 1 month ago
SO what we don't have to answer to black or white other than albinos and someother skin alment. No you didn't come from the niger river and I am not a slave owner trader of percepitcate in the above take credate for something YOU do for GOD because after all? Who wrote this song poor you have more rights in this county than whitey and your still black power bull shit!!! Yes you are own up to your whining ass. Lying is not with God of God or For God. Know it and get right.
fieldershepett 2 months ago
Wonderful song and her voice is just beautiful!
BetsyinTheSunshine 2 months ago
What The Hells The Slideshow About?
TheVideoPig 2 months ago
@TheVideoPig water
13shadylady 2 months ago 2
@13shadylady Oh, You Have Made Me Feel Like A Retard Now.....
TheVideoPig 2 months ago
@TheVideoPig i feel like one most days.......im blonde lol
13shadylady 2 months ago
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@TheVideoPig Maybe The Slideshow About Water In It's Different Forms.....
buildsbest 2 months ago
This song is life.
<3
ThePinkSnowball 2 months ago
It's also a good swing dance song.
p.s. I'm purple ; )
homeschoolveggie 3 months ago 2
that is some sassy trumpet in that song
dh777777777777777777 3 months ago
Eva Cassidy rest in peace. I thank you for singing this wonderful song.
SenhorCroft 3 months ago
why does everyone feel the need to share what race they are after their comment....p.s. im black
NickJB95 3 months ago
Everyone needs to stop complaining about my racist ways.
I paid good money for these slaves I am not just going to throw them away.
MeBTrollin 4 months ago
@MeBTrollin thats rude.
funnybethany 4 months ago
@MeBTrollin I gather you are black and you're provoking a response. Racism is kept alive by division. We are all human beings and the people who have suffered most are often the most spiritual. Blessings to all mankind.
buildsbest 2 months ago 3
I'm color blind when it comes to talented performers, period.
A dedicated Aussie
poopsienoremac 4 months ago 18
Don't know why everyone's bothering to go on about the history. Whether it's about African Americans and Slavery or the Israelites escaping Egypt is not affecting the people watching. People looked at it because it's a great song and Eva Cassidy has a beautiful voice. It should be left at that, and as a point of information, if it's really nessesary, it is about the Israelites but the African American slaves sung it working as well and it has meaning for both races. I'm white and Irish :)
nevillep7 5 months ago 2
We live in a age of religious/ethnic tolerance, my fellow whites to those of you who still hate blacks, STOP. Our ancestors in America invented our own hatred of blacks through the slave codes. Shall we make the same mistake they did? Why do some of us refuse to learn and accept these men/women as our brothers? I no longer see race or religion, all men and women are my brothers and sisters, let history teach us what we did wrong let us grow as people, let us grow.
AtomicBlizzard12 5 months ago
Cool.
rtv300711 5 months ago
look at dat big whale :0
MrFlashbangz280 5 months ago
Favourite version of this song anywhere for me
DexStanT 5 months ago
I heard that this song was a way of covertly explaining a route of excape for slaves. It was apparently about following the water up until the rapids (God's gonna trouble the water). At the point of the rapids you would find safety and freedom. The title 'Wade in the water' was to mislead prying ears to believe it meant baptism as the captors were devout members of the Anglican church. We can stay with our past ignorance or move on and develop better attitudes.Our choice.
buildsbest 6 months ago
@buildsbest The title also refers to how slaves would literally "wade in the water" to throw tracking hounds off of their scent during their escape.
shannonfiz 3 months ago
@shannonfiz knowledge is power!! Well put
keithsmokey1 3 months ago
Thank you for uploading this lovely video. The photographs are wonderful and I really appreciate the explainations of how the stripes are formed. Inspirational stuff. Cheers.
Lovely song and so beautifully sung by a spiritual woman..She puts such feeling into it.
buildsbest 6 months ago 3
Thank you for uploading this lovely video. The photographs are wonderful and I really appreciate the explainations of how the stripes are formed. Inspirational stuff. Cheers
buildsbest 6 months ago
Would everyone please SHUT THE HELL UP with all the mud-slinging and accusations of 'racism'? This is Eva Cassidy we're listening to. Hello? Does that not ring a bell? This woman wanted peace in the world.
silencesfell 6 months ago
People who take credit for the work of others, just because of an imaginary community, be it based on skin colour, ethnicity, nation of birth, gender, sexuality - do so because they have absolutely nothing going for them. Go out and live, then talk about it.
7th75thCallaghan 6 months ago
actually this song had a hidden message. when u wade in the water, then dogs will lose the scent.
kleistpark 6 months ago
@kleistpark Which dogs?
buildsbest 2 months ago
Ignoring all the ridiculous comments....This woman was AWESOME and she did JUSTICE to this song! I had never heard of her until 10 minutes ago when I went from the late great Peggy Lee singing her signature song "Fever" then hearing Eva's version and she RIPPED it and made it her own with those GOD GIVEN VOCALS! May you forever rest in peace you beautiful angel...lord knows your vocal ability is a tribute to black gospel from which you were learned. Thank you Jesus for having blessed us with Eva
mslegacy01 6 months ago 2
Dear people on this comment thing,
How about we all just realize this is good music and listen to it without all the hatin'?
K, thanks.
yay99999 6 months ago 34
@sporlife let go off such bitterness. It's history, geez..
myfuture79 7 months ago
The 15 people who dislike this video, must truly be some of the most hating, most evil people to walk this earth, if they can ignore the not only the history and the meaning of this song, but also the igenious ways gospel was used a secret code to communicate. Those 15 people are truly , to the full extent of the meaning of the word, haters!
atomicblazeratomic 7 months ago
This song is in reference to the old and new testaments. All humans suffer, and God wants to heal us. It's an invitation to come to God and let Him heal our hearts of the wounds our enemies inflict upon us.
Eva Cassidy was a humble young woman with a heart full of love for God's world and ALL his children.
This song, like so many she sang, speaks to all who will listen.
The Devil comes in ALL colors. Eva suffered terrible pain and early death. she didn't own slaves.
songbird427 7 months ago
@songbird427 Well put.
buildsbest 2 months ago
whoooo we sing this in choir at skewl... i quite like it! xx
kizywizy4 7 months ago
@Bksbest21 I just want to point out that you are not part of the "we" that made this song, you have never been a slave in any sense of the word.
TheDevenus95 7 months ago
oh wow
wid58 8 months ago
I really like this version of the song :D It's really calming, yet it stirs something inside.
bugstomper123 8 months ago
Who are those children dirty and damp?
Must be the children from CATOCTIN QUAKER CAMP!
BobforJoe 8 months ago
Eva Cassidy was a beautiful woman and a gifted singer; she gives this song a uplifting spiritual rise. I love her music.
RockArtLove 8 months ago
These pictures are pretyy cool . . . I love this song. And, music has no race!
mimilottolo 8 months ago
Anyone who would criticize Eva Cassidy for singing this song should have their head examined. Eva was incredibly talented, deeply devout, and perhaps one of the only "pure souls" in the DC metro area while she was alive. Eva was an Earth-bound Angel for her all-too-short life, and she was all about love and bringing people together.
I know that "haters gotta hate", but if you're hating on Eva, you are barking up the wrong tree...
stereodreamer23 8 months ago 3
I just like the song.
Pearliff 8 months ago
Does anyone else think that drawing a comparison between a white woman singing a gospel choon and the sins (some) white people committed in times of slavery is totally disrespectful to those people who lived as slaves? I think it's pretty beautiful that we share each other and our music more healthily now.
I have white skin, my wife has brown skin, and neither of us gives much of a fuck where the music in our house comes from. We sing it in the shower just as bad as each other!
LoveAllThePeople
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5147848amp 8 months ago
so who and what is the original version of this track?
gereiam 8 months ago
Why can't we just enjoy music, and avoid the hate. Some people these days....
MotionAllegiance 8 months ago 2
this song is like Jazz... so cool! :D
Cheesemine710 8 months ago
Heard this song as a Slow Fox with William Pino & Alessandra Bucciarelli
So great. so beautiful like a wave in the water, as a Slow Fox should be.
Romanticdance 8 months ago
wow I can imagine listening while drinking a stawberry coctailing just sitting there with friends... :)
whistlebloweract 9 months ago
If Eva and I can be called white devils, I guess Bksbest21 wouldn't mind being called a black devil. Sheesh,
bombria 9 months ago
Eva, just so beautiful, whoever said Eva has destroyed this song because she is white and it should be sung as an anthem by a black person, should just get over it. Black people sing white's songs too - so what? Music is a free medium which everyone should enjoy. Eva is so soulful, with a perfect voice for every musical genre
reallyrolly 9 months ago 2
Such a beautiful video, showing that no matter how far we go with arts, the nature will always give a better show... and people here fighting about their stupid "differences"... that's not only sad, but shows how small the human race is.
alangt 9 months ago
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God is gonna trouble the water like he did back in the day the Israelites were freed from the land of Egypt ~ only this time it's gonna bring the brothers together; peace and safety shall they say in Jerusalem... Yeah. And that means Rosh Hashana; the sound of the Last Trump is nigh. Check out these prophecies soon to be brought ta pass. (Isaiah 11; Ezekial 38 in the good OT and 1 Thes. 5 and 1 Cor. 15 in the New...)
amarie777321 9 months ago
God is gonna trouble the water like he did back in the day the Israelites were freed from the land of Egypt ~ only this time it's gonna bring the brothers together; peace and safety shall they say in Jerusalem... Yeah. And that means Rosh Hashana; the sound of the Last Trump is nigh. Check out these prophecies soon to be brought ta pass. (Isaiah 11; Ezekial 38 in the good OT and 1 Thes. 5 in the New...)
amarie777321 9 months ago
@xsmiley3589 Music is not to be contained, music is for everyone whether they be black, white, Asian or olive skin Mediterranean.
spellwick 9 months ago
@cartergirl Lady Gaga doesn't have to be ridiculed just because she can't sing like Eva Cassidy. Lady Gaga has her place too.
littlemousedogbird 9 months ago
This song wasn't written until 1900s. It has nothing to do with slavery.
The verses reflect the Israelites escape out of Egypt as found in Exodus:14.[1] 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."
bttharesmith15 9 months ago
@bttharesmith15 Um, dead wrong. The publication of this song didn't happen until 1903, when it was mildly accepted for a black to publish anything. This tune and the messages it entailed existed since the mid 1700s, alluding to the ships coming with blue, white, and red uniforms which then took black people from africa to be slaves. Then its messages changed as the slaves used it to spread messages via music in the colonies and 19th century America.
Icyveins906 6 months ago
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Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
2 Cor. 3:17
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
John 8:36
holdchipformy2cents 10 months ago 2
We are singing this song for choir!!! Tomorrow is are concert!!
ShelbyMcSweet 10 months ago
Wading in the water? Must be how the Japanese feel right about now...
kasl92 10 months ago
@kasl92 nice job you fucking ass hole - make a fucking tsunami joke you dick
chocolatepockyluv 10 months ago
@kasl92 Well this song was made for a message to the slaves the japanese can wade in the water the water is to deep. :S
XslowlydieingX 9 months ago
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She doesn't deserve to sing this song!
xsmiley3589 10 months ago
@xsmiley3589 ?? lets see you do it better you fucking judgemental bitch
chocolatepockyluv 10 months ago
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@chocolatepockyluv ... What im sayin is this song is black heritage and white ppl shouldnt capitalize on that. white ppl always taking things away from us.
xsmiley3589 10 months ago
@xsmiley3589 I doubt Eva personally made much money from this recording. Eva didn't take anything away from black people. Far from it! If anything, she's giving great respect to black heritage by singing it the way it was meant to be sung.
guitmartiman 9 months ago 2
@xsmiley3589 None of us deserve anything we have in this life. Were it not for Jesus, all any of us deserve is eternal death, to become a pile of ashes, if you will. However, by God's grace we are allowed to live because we were bought with a price, Jesus' death on the cross. Therefore, any talents we have we owe to Him. Eva was blessed with a talent for singing that is beyond measure. It would have been a sin for her not to record this great song just because people like you would be offended.
guitmartiman 9 months ago
Y'all forgot the true meaning of this song and the reason of its existence it wasn't for icebergs and all that crap it was written to form communication between the black slaves who wanted to be free
beckxallisgone 10 months ago
im an atheist but i love this song because i go to Eastern Mennonite High School and we have chapel everyday and i enjoy singing this song in chapel
Sporkinator4 10 months ago
I love love love that you put this song to icebergs. It is somehow perfect!
marinturk 10 months ago
awesome cover, awesome video
ichthus1890 11 months ago
Great Video, Great Song........Perfect Slowfox!!
I love it :)
Saschgede 11 months ago
the icebergs are lovely and relaxing as well!
mattjh192 11 months ago
isnt this weird.....i heard this song but it was much sadder...the lyrics are the same but the tune is different....
SqueakyIsMadeOfLove 11 months ago
@SqueakyIsMadeOfLove thats because eva was legendary at re-arranging already amazing songs. many of her songs are 'covers' but she had this knack of totally transforming songs & making them ALL her own. singers that cover songs nowadays should take a minute to listen to eva before they churn out pansy versions of an already made song. over the rainbow, autumn leaves, people get ready, to name but a few songs that eva re-worked into her style, making them sound utterly different to the originals.
blondiemoo 11 months ago
@blondiemoo OHHHHHH
SqueakyIsMadeOfLove 11 months ago
wade in the water, children....
awesome!
mic32vic31 11 months ago
Great icebergs by the way
2:15: Ansolutely unbelievable
flexi712 11 months ago
♥ Slowfox ♥ :)
KrasnyeRozy 11 months ago
Jesus fucking Christ, why is every comment on this video racial? Can you all just shut the fuck up please? Sheesh. It's just music.
Darkside626 11 months ago
good thing theres something called SOUL that white people can also possess.
saraboles1 11 months ago
she's a classic dudes why would you trade a classic for something new that wouldn't make the song sound good?
cloudassassin 11 months ago
I'd rather hear an African-American sing this song. I get no feeling from this version. PS I'm white.
toblujay 11 months ago
@toblujay fuck u
frederic129 11 months ago
- for those who disliked this. you are real jerks. this is great class, and this song has so much meaning.
bumpajelly 11 months ago 2
her music always makes me believe these pictures are moving...
LEPmusics 11 months ago
My music class and I are doing this acapella. This song is so catchy and funky :D
Kath666 1 year ago
Wow. I listened to an awesome song & got informative info on icebergs......???
1winkwinkproductions 1 year ago 4
white people have to mess up everything. just like they took those Africans from Africa and caused them to write this song to get away from they ass
iivy21 1 year ago
@iivy21 if you want to go all "black panther" go fight slavery in your own country, it still exists there.
nickwalco 9 months ago
@nickwalco racist ass
iivy21 7 months ago
@iivy21 Racist for fighting slavery? :o my my.... aren't we the misinformed one.
nickwalco 7 months ago 2
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soitistoo1 1 year ago
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soitistoo1 1 year ago
I like this song very much. Great for Blues dancing.
Also learned how to do Lindy Hop breaks to this song...back in the day.
soitistoo1 1 year ago
@spforlife
How can you say I, being white, cannot sing this song in appreciation of the those who wrote it?
You realise that makes you exceedingly Racist, and thus no different than those who imprisonned those Slaves in the first place?
Which, when you think about it. Totally switches the roles.
In your own words; You would have no right to enjoy this song because you represent those the slaves were singing "against".
But that's not the case, so you can. Just like the rest of us can.
TheSuttonator 1 year ago 2
@spforlife
We're all human. All the same history. PEOPLE did horrible things to other PEOPLE.
Not Black. Not White. Nor Beige or Yellow. Not even cream with hints of pink freckles.
If I am disgusted by the way one man treated another, should I not voice that opinion?
If I enjoy the sentiment one man spoke or wrote, should I not share it with others?
If I have a deep love for a certain type of music, should I not express that with song and rejoyce?
TheSuttonator 1 year ago 4
If someone believes that Eva Cassidy "destroyed" this song, they should listen to all the other songs she has destroyed - she has blown a lot of songs out of the water, probably in more genres than just about any other singer. : ) It's not that her version was necessarily the best (though many would say so) but her incredible range. I wish she was still around destroying songs.
MsTubbytube 1 year ago
lovely song
cameron7tam 1 year ago
2:00, coolest theing I've seen in awhile.
rockerhead247 1 year ago
magnifique vagues de glace, belle voix d'eva cassidy
62beat 1 year ago
10 people have never waded in the water!
Nelly6269 1 year ago
I like this video.
Alzdr 1 year ago
Wow i love this i havnt heard it in Ages!
MattJist 1 year ago
she took a song we made to get away from the evils of the white devil and literally destroyed it, this song is not a happy song it has a meaning and a root
Bksbest21 1 year ago
@Bksbest21 "she took a song we made to get away from the evils of the white devil and literally destroyed it..."
Guess what? We have people of European decent singing traditional Western African music; African Americans singing Italian Opera, Argentinians playing surf music, Charlie Pride singing Kentucky Mountain music...and there is absolutely *NOTHING* you can do about it. I think you know it, too We WILL NOT perform in the boxes you assign us. . The world is passing you by Bksbest21.
Edella 1 year ago 103
@Edella Amen & amen!!!
lconeill1949 1 year ago
@Edella Music IS the Universal language I do believe.
marmcmick 11 months ago
maybe you shouldn't look up something on you tube.......and you should research an artist before you comment......just sayin
edaboladik 10 months ago
@Edella well said my freind.
draculon5 8 months ago
@Bksbest21
it's a song based on white religion, about black slaves being helped to escape by white folk, using underground railroads.
Constavlos 1 year ago
@Constavlos You seem to have quite a few facts misplaced. Firstly Christianity is not a white religion, its a Semetic religion and was INTRODUCED to blacks by whites. Also ANY historical work on slave religion after the revolutionary war stresses the vast differences in "white" and "black" christianity. This song was used by slaves who did NOT travel on teh under ground railroad, seeing as how that was only available in certain regions. Most stops on the "railroad" were presented by blacks.
spforlife 1 year ago
@spforlife
ok, you're being nitty. so technically christianity isn't a semetic religion, christianity (the bible & the christ) were created by the mother/catholic church, based/stolen from the semetic jews, who reject the "son of god/saviour" religions. are the romans/italians not 'white'? underground railround, i just use as a term for a route of escape the slaves used ;) i see what you mean though, cheers for picking me up on that one.
Constavlos 1 year ago
@Constavlos why not go on some other site to both people with your ignorance of a well known religion? appreciate the music and if it has a religious connotation for you, that's great. if it doesn't, that's fine too. meanwhile, stop raping my eyes with your stupidity.
lauramar1018 1 year ago
@Bksbest21 bro, your making our race seem ignorant,as if all the wanna ge thugs aren't enough. and study your history; yes we used songs like this to escape slavery but they had double meaning! so stop being so sensitive
xelasan1 1 year ago
@xelasan1 what was the other meaning since you so damn smart, you comment says one thing UNCLE TOM and that only has one meaning :-)
Bksbest21 1 year ago
@xelasan1 How is an honest expression of distaste for whites trying to acquire black culture a form of ignorance? One must remain true to the HISTOROCITY of the songs and that means understanding that they were AGAINST the white oppressor. Them singing this music understandably lacks true meaining since it is against them to begin with. Furthmore i think the author of the comment understood that the song had a double meaning and that is why he commented, WHITES singing this song defiles its trut
spforlife 1 year ago
@spforlife calm down its just a song
Timmayy44 1 year ago
@spforlife
As my understanding goes it has nothing to do with distaste for "the white opressor"
This song was sung by slaves as a way of signaling when the coast was clear to make a run from it.
To literally wade through the water/ river nearby to freedom.
It was just assumed by their "masters" it was a spiritual song the slaves sung when down or in defiance.
Thus I'd say you're wrong to say it was an honest expression of distaste. Rather a clever ruse.
TheSuttonator 1 year ago 3
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chrisz1grl 1 year ago
@Bksbest21 People like YOU, are the cancer of our race. Nor you or I have or ever will be slaves!! The white people today ow us nothing. But you and I owe it to our for fathers to get out there and make change. The only way to stop racism is to kill it from both ends. I am a black man and have faced my fair helpings of prejudice, but I will be damn if I hold an entire race countable for a select few. Times are changing and you cling to the past living in a dead social order look to the light bro
protectandserv 10 months ago 178
@protectandserv Beautifully written from the heart and the head. I remember seeing footage of Rodney King being beaten up by white police. I was horrified. My partner at the time a lovely guy whoose parents came to London from Jamaica said 'Don't I bleed'. We all bleed. Also believing in reincarnation we've all been everything., all races, all genders, good and bad............
Love and Peace
thevelvetskyandstars 8 months ago
@protectandserv AMEN!!!!
strazzy3 7 months ago 2
@protectandserv Not only "black people" experience racism. I am a white female, and I have been harassed by kids in school, because I was white, and not black. I was told that it was because of my family that their family was treat so poorly, and it was torture. I wasn't even alowed to get chocolate milk in elementary school, because it was "only for black people" (I hate drinking plane milk). They didn't even know that I was related to a slave (as told by my sister), and now I am with someone
rinishoko 6 months ago
@protectandserv who is the father of my son, who finds it offensive for "blacks and mexicans to complain about being forced to leave their homes for slavery and that they want to go home". The father of my son and love of my life is Native American, his "people" were forced off their land and put in small reservation camps, they CAN'T go home. There home was taken...
rinishoko 6 months ago
@rinishoko The father who taught this son not blame others for the action of their fathers.
protectandserv 6 months ago
@protectandserv oh quiet you big gay baby, racism is cool and funny
Breathor 4 months ago
@protectandserv time to expropriate world capital
ipwnorcs 3 months ago
@protectandserv amen to that brother xx
KARYLJ123 3 months ago
@protectandserv finally someone is talking some sense. thank you.
1Lula1ful 3 months ago
This is good.....
crocobull 1 year ago
this song we're singin in choir
Lila1Launeschaf 1 year ago
is this the best version of this song out there?
also did she sing this on austin city limits?
DrBraids 1 year ago
@DrBraids "best version of this song?"
You've got a wealth of options:
The Staples Singers had a great version, & Big Mama Thornton did an R&B take.
Acappella Spirituals do a beautiful gospel rendition, & Ramsey Lewis did a jazz cover. Even Herb Alpert did a bossa nova.
But 4 me, the definitive 1 is Sweet Honey in the Rock's, recorded live @ Carnegie Hall (esp famous now bcs used in soundtrack for an ep of Grey's Anatomy); that one's heart-stopping powerful.
All r here on YouTube.
cheers
smartalek1 1 year ago
Beautiful, both the singer and the pictures.
TruDilight2 1 year ago
The pictures are stunning, never new such a thing existed! wonderful.
ilsetencate 1 year ago
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srlavrent 1 year ago
WOW! Cool pics! And frozen wavws! Who knew!
hmrhed43 1 year ago
Music doesn't have boundaries or classifications.
People do !
emanon86 1 year ago
i cnt believe i fo got diz song until i heard it 2day i fo got how awsum it iz
mizznickkyizcool 1 year ago
Ronneesam is nothing more than a supercilious Pommy troll ---Can of cockroach spray anyone ??
xpcrooser 1 year ago
I love this version of Wade in the water. Her voice is so soulful. If you listen to her for the first time, she does sound like she's black. However, soul has no color. This is honestly the best I've ever heard this song. This song is true to this negro spiritual.
17yogabbagabba 1 year ago
I have to agree. This is some good schtuff!
maxwellb2565 1 year ago
she ripped it off stray cats! sraty cat strut
kajdabash 1 year ago
@kajdabash and ' hit the road jack', 'stray cats strut',' why dont you do right'... and a hundred other songs with this chord progression : ) I like to mix them and have the audience sing along. It's funny how many songs have this bass line, especially!
songbird427 7 months ago
if any of u know the original tune sang and the singer please reply or message me, PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am not black but, it is sort of attracts me, the sound and the feel of togetherness.
sexisnotporn 1 year ago
@sexisnotporn Type "wade in the water" in Google and you can find your answer there.
Hutzjohn 1 year ago
She could sing anything!
DAVIDAPPLE 1 year ago
Dear Lord,
Before you trouble the water would you mind squeezing in time to trade Lady Ga Ga for Eva Cassidy back? love, the Youtubers
cartergirl3of3 1 year ago 59
@cartergirl3of3 Lady Ga Ga wows many people. Why would you devastate many young girls/children for someone at peace? I'm personally not a fan of hers, but millions are.
stiny736 1 year ago
@cartergirl3of3 wtf
frederic129 11 months ago
this song is so awsome :) if you like this song ( of course you do lol ) check out the wade in the water with harry and alfie and hannah vee bee ect. its so good :)
12Riona3 1 year ago
How relaxing :)
SenhorCroft 1 year ago 3
I really really love the song especially because it has been a kind of code between the slaves. Its a very good and true store. And then i just love this relaxing music :)
bissemiz 1 year ago
Really, really good! She is one talented lady. I've got several of her songs. Her voice range is amazing! Nice and clear tones and pitch!!!!
annifanful1 1 year ago
Shutup whoever says she doesnt have soul in this song! This song is full of it, you must be deaf ! I dont no much about the lyrics of what they mean, but if you dont like this song then your a fool .
pinKstarzx 1 year ago
She doesn't have the soul for this voice. The song isn't meant to be happy or upbeat.
madeyes4u 1 year ago
amazing song, great talent. The melody though sounds a lot like "Did you hear about Jerry" performed by Jewel Brown with Satchmo.
Thanks for the upload, pmatas!
ahounda 1 year ago
Dame Eva was really good, she could sing anything, and better than the original artist or anyone for that matter.
Hutzjohn 1 year ago
@Hutzjohn Not aware that Cassidy was a dame. You talk out of your anal orifice. Please regale us with your aphorisms. We could do with a laugh after listening to the execrable shriekings of Cassidy!!!!
ronneesam 1 year ago
@ronneesam Dame is a typing error it should read DAMN, And I would guess that you think you're really brilliant using words uncommon to everyday conversations. The only thing bigger than your ego is your stupidity for failing to recognize Cassidy as a great singer. Way too bad you wasn't smart enough to recognize a typo. enough said here.
Hutzjohn 1 year ago
@ronneesam And I also believe everyone has already had their good laugh with you using words like "execrable", "aphorisms" and not being