Follow The Drinking Gourd

The following song and Curriculum Based Readers Theater helps learners understand how music relates to history and culture.

The book, "Follow the Drinking Gourd," by Jeanette Winter is available from Amazon.com.

Chorus:

Follow the drinking gourd

Follow the drinking gourd

For the old man is a waitin'

For to carry you to freedom if you

Follow the drinking gourd

When the sun comes up

And the first Quail calls

Follow the drinking gourd

For the old man is a waitin'

For to carry you to freedom if you

Follow the drinking gourd

Chorus

The riverbank will make a mighty good road

The dead trees show you the way

Left foot, peg foot travelin' on, just you

Follow the drinking gourd

Chorus

Here is the song, "Follow the Drinking Gourd" from Silver Burdett Music Materials.

Here is a Curriculum Based Readers Theater script I wrote about "Follow the Drinking Gourd."


Find out more about Curriculum Based Reader's Theater at:
http://www.rosalindflynn.com/RdrsThtr.html






Rosalind Flynn's book,
Dramatizing the Content With Curriculum-based Readers Theatre,
is available from Amazon.com