Don't You Let Nobody Turn You Around - Negro Spiritual, Traditional / WITNESS: Reawakening Love (2022-2023)

Season	2022-2023
Performance Date	February 26, 2023
Performance Year	2023
Performance Time	4:00PM
Location	Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
Performance Title	WITNESS: Reawakening Love
Composer	Traditional Negro Spiritual
Arranger	Eric O. Poole
Country	United States
Year Composed	2022
Timing	4’00”
Performers	VocalEssence Chorus, Ensemble Singers, Singers Of This Age, Vintage Voices, G. Phillip Shoultz, III, soloist
Text Translation	Don’t you let nobody turn you aroun’, Don’t let ‘em turn you aroun’. You better keep on, keep walkin’, walkin’, Keep on, keep talkin’, talkin’. Marchin’, marchin’ up to freedom lan’. Don’t you let no bully, Don’t you let no hatred, Don’t you let racism turn you aroun’. I been ‘buked and I been scorned. I been talked about as sure as you’re born. I’m gonna keep my hands on the Gospel plow. Nobody! Nobody! NOBODY gonna turn me out! I’m gonna find good trouble, I’m gonna find good trouble, I’m gonna find some necessary trouble and turn it aroun’. Nobody turnin’ me roun’. No. No. Nobody gonna turn me aroun’. No. No. Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me. No. No. No. No…, no…, no…, nobody turnin’ me ‘roun’. Nobody, NO! Won’t let ‘em turn me. Keep on, keep walkin’, walkin’, Keep on, keep talkin’, talkin’. Findin’ good trouble, trouble, Marchin’, marchin’ IN to freedom lan’, right IN to freedom lan’! —Traditional Negro Spiritual, alt. Eric O. Poole
Categories	WITNESS Repertoire

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