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Ezekiel Saw The Wheel

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  • Wikipedia:Ezekiel_Saw_the_Wheel
  • Country of origin: USA
  • "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel", often given as "Ezekiel Saw de Wheel" is an African American spiritual. The song's music and text has no known author, but originated among enslaved African-Americans on Plantation complexes in the Southern United States sometime in the early 19th century. The lyrics to the song are based on Chapter I of the Book of Ezekiel. These lyrics were published in the poetry anthology American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century: Volume One, Freneau to Whitman.

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