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Go Tell It On The Mountain (ver. 1) by Jeff Guillen - Piano Sheets and Free Sheet Music

  
About the Song
"Go Tell It on the Mountain" is an African-American spiritual written by John W. Work dating back to at least 1865 that has been sung and recorded by many gospel and secular performers. It is considered a Christmas carol because its original lyric celebrates the Nativity of Jesus: "Go tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere; go tell it on the mountain, that Jesus Christ is born." In 1963, Peter Yarrow, Noel "Paul" Stookey, and Mary Travers, along with their musical director, Milt Okun, adapted and rewrote "Go Tell It on the Mountain" as "Tell It on the Mountain", their lyrics referring specifically to Exodus and employing the line "Let my people go," but implicitly referring to the Civil Rights struggle of the early '60s. The song was recorded by Yarrow, Stookey and Travers on their Peter, Paul and Mary album In the Wind and was also a moderate hit single for them. (US #33 pop, 1964). Civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer used this rewritten version of the song as an anthem during the mid-1960s. Other artists, besides Peter, Paul and Mary, who have recorded the song (chiefly on either Christmas-themed music albums or collections of spirituals or folk songs) include: * The New Christy Minstrels * Simon & Garfunkel * The Wailers * Mahalia Jackson * Fred Hammond * Kirk Franklin * Candi Staton * Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby * James Taylor * Cece Winans * Anne Murray * Vanessa L. Williams * Jewel * Dustin Kensrue * Bruce Cockburn * Little Big Town * Sherill Milnes * John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers * Sara Evans * Jim Nabors * Ray Conniff Singers * Toby Keith * Peter Tosh * The Blind Boys of Alabama * Oh Susanna - for the holiday compilation album, Maybe This Christmas Too? (2003) * Dolly Parton * Carola Häggkvist * Bobby Darin * Art Paul Schlosser (who rewrote the lyrics for kids with the title, "Go Tell it On the Swingset") * The Gas House Gang * Needtobreathe * Adam Hambüger-Hatt - Released in Germany under the title Gehen Sie es auf dem Berg.    Download this sheet!
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Getting access to free sheet music for Christmas Christmas is one time when everyone wants to learn how to play the piano. There are so many Christmas carols, hymns and other compositions played. In such a situation, you will find it useful to get free sheet music especially with the Christmas compositions in them. New age and classical One of the best advantages about free sheet music is that you can get both classic as well as New Age Christmas musical notes. That means you will be able to play the old time classical compositions, carols etc. and the new artists compositions. The New Age Christmas musical notes are very poignant and lovely and playing these piano notes is sure to stir hearts. One of the drawbacks about New Age Christmas music sheets is that they are very difficult to access. Most New Age albums do not sell too well and hence the demand for these is lesser. In this context, getting access  (More...)