"Jordan's river is deep and wide, hallelujah / meet my mother on the other side, hallelujah" * Pete Seeger: Michael Row the Boat Ashore * a Negro spiritual; first reported in 1863, written down by Charles Pickard Ware during 1862 - 1865, first published in 1867, here with some additional lyrics by P. Seeger * first recorded apparently in the late 1950's, by P. Seeger in 1963 * live in Melbourne, 1963