"All God's Chillun Got Wings" is a
Negro spiritual song. "Chillun" is an old-fashioned dialect word for "children". (Robeson sings it as "children" in his recording, although the printed lyrics say "chillun".)
Its title inspired the
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of Realism (theatre), realism, earlier associated with ...
play ''
All God's Chillun Got Wings''.
References
External links
Paul Robeson recording of the songDissertation discussing literary origins of this story
American folk songs
Year of song unknown
Songs with unknown songwriters
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