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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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How to read sheet music  How to read sheet music Reading piano sheet music is no simple thing. For it first we require to know the individual elements of the composition itself in order to read sheet music. You must make sure that you are familiar with that particular composition's language before you tackle the entire piece. In order to grasp the intent and nuances of the piece quickly for reading piano sheet music following steps are to be considered:- 1> To start with have a look over entire composition to get the feel of the length and style of the sheet music. This first run through is just to have a quick overview of the composer's work. This will slowly prepare you to read the sheet music.  (More...)