The song has it's own write up at Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%27s_Boy_Child I didn't know that it might be the only popular Christmas carol written by a black songwriter. You'd think with the number of black gospel writers and singers there would be more.
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Date: 2010-12-08 04:23 pm (UTC)I didn't know that it might be the only popular Christmas carol written by a black songwriter. You'd think with the number of black gospel writers and singers there would be more.
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Date: 2010-12-08 04:59 pm (UTC)You'd think so. And not written all that recently, either. Dern song's almost as old as I am.