Go Down Moses (When Israel was in Egypt’s Land)

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Go Down Moses! You can sing this in a straight up choral/gospel style, as a New Orleans style jazz number, with solo improvisations for band, you can write new verses to suite the needs of the moment, really there are so many possibilities that i can’t list them all. Plus, almost everybody knows the chorus and they can join in. I love the version by Louis Armstrong that I have included below.

I haven’t written a band arrangement for this and I am not sure I really am up to it. This may be one of those songs that just has to be improvised. Maybe I’ll write out a bass line with chords and the melody and let you all take it from there.

Go Down Moses lead sheet

Here is the Louis Armstrong version.