(JUBILLEE SONGS)

Now when the jubillee songs were first being demanded for the stage, more than thirty odd years ago, Mrs. Helen C. Dickey said to me that the Yankees were offering hundreds and thousands of dollars to hear these songs sung by Southern people, white or colored. But of course the colored people were more familiar with them, as they had always been used in colored religious meetings. So Mrs. Dickey suggested that after she could get some knowledge or training in the use of these songs, that she and I might go north, and make out some of these hundreds or thousands, by she singing for the whites and I for colored, or in union for both. But we both had started out in our families there. Mine was then a family of five and hers a family with one added. But she was interested in being trained for these jubillee songs.

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Jubillee songs, are now being used in the schools, and on the stage and we listen to them on the Victrola, in an up-to-date manner, and they are very attractive to be heard in the late manner - direct from notes. But that deep spiritual religious heart-felt tone that was heard and felt, and enjoyed in past years by the old-time Christians, and in the old-time meetings has faded away, and in the present manner they are too jolly and peculiar to ever touch the deep-seat of the soul as they did in past-years.

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