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The Good Lord Bird season 1 episode 1 soundtrack

Meet the Lord, 5 songs

Henry Shackleford, a young slave living in the Kansas territory in 1856, has a run-in with abolitionist John Brown, who mistakes him for a girl and promptly “frees” him. Believing Henry to be his good luck charm, Brown welcomes him into his ragtag army and nicknames him “Onion.” Donning a dress for the first time while dodging bullets, Onion quickly awakens to the life or death stakes in the battle over human bondage and witnesses Brown’s divinely inspired violent agenda: to free the land of slavery by any means necessary.

  • Come On Children, Let's Sing — Mahalia Jackson
    Opening Titles.
  • Am I a Soldier of the Cross? — The Zion Travelers
    Out looking for Dutch, the night Frederick pulls a gun on "the Reverend".
  • Shake Your Moneymaker — Elmore James
    After Pate wipes out Shaw's sharpshooters, the attack on Capt. Pate's position.
  • The Blood — The Zion Travelers
    John rides off, leaving the slave boy and his sons behind; End Credits.
  • I'm On My Way to Canaan — Mahalia Jackson
Season 1 Episode 2

Theme Song

Come On Children, Let's Sing
Mahalia Jackson
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