A kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States.
1If y'all hear an old Negro spiritual in the background, that's me.
2As the Negro spiritual says: I got shoes, you got shoes, All God's children got shoes.
3An African ancestral song, a Buddhist chant, a Negro spiritual with codes and keys to freedom.
4The old Negro spiritual says, "Ezekiel saw a wheel 'way up in the middle of the air."
5The prayer-filled hook, powerful gospel choir chorus, and drill sergeant cadence of the beat blended masterfully on Ye's new age Negro spiritual.
6Committing to memory the leading lines of all the Negro spiritual songs is no easy task, for they run up into the hundreds.
7Finally, the black woman strode out to the microphone at the center of the stage and began to sing a slow-moving Negro spiritual.
8Swing Low Sweet Chariot Bet you didn't know this hymn was originally a Negro spiritual, sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Fisk University.
9The piece is structured around the singing of five traditional Negro spirituals.
10I mean we sang Negro Spirituals to help us break off of plantations.
11They have referred to these as 'contemporary negro spirituals'.
12Paul Robeson told them about him; composes negro spirituals.
13They came singing an old negro spiritual.
14"It's a Negro spiritual." Her smile made it clear that she approved.
15While Negro spirituals were not imported directly from Africa, they were more than an attempt to copy the master's music.
16Films such as 1957's Funny Face use Black southern gospel and inspiration from Negro spirituals for a whole musical number.
Translations for Negro spiritual