Gospel Plow

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Keep Your Hand On the Plow

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"Gospel Plow" (also known as "Hold On" and "Keep Your Hand on the Plow") is a traditional African American Spiritual. It is listed in the Roud Folk Song Index, number 10075. The title is biblical, based on Luke 9:62.

Recordings[]

Duke Ellington at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival
The Folksmiths, including Joe Hickerson - We've Got Some Singing To Do 1958
Odetta on Odetta at Carnegie Hall 1961
Clara Ward and Her Singers 1962
Bob Dylan on his self-titled debut album 1962^[1]
Peggy Lee - 2 Shows Nightly 1968
Screaming Trees - Dust 1996
Old Crow Medicine Show - Greetings from WAWA - 2000
The Hackensaw Boys - Look Out - 2007
Charlie Parr - Keep Your Hands On The Plow - 2011
Uncle Sinner - Ballads and Mental Breakdowns - 2008
Elizabeth Cook - Gospel Plow - 2012
Moses Hogan - The Moses Hogan Choral Series 2003: This Little Light of Mine
Slim Cessna's Auto Club - Always Say Please & Thank You (2000)

Published versions[]

Alan Lomax and John A. Lomax Our Singing Country 1941 (pp 44–45)

References[]

^ "Gospel Plow | The Official Bob Dylan Site". www.bobdylan.com. Retrieved 2018-07-01.

show v t Bob Dylan songs by album (1960s)
Bob Dylan	"Talkin' New York" "In My Time of Dyin'" "Man of Constant Sorrow" "Fixin' to Die" "Pretty Peggy-O" "Gospel Plow" "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down" "House of the Risin' Sun" "Song to Woody" "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean"
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan	"Blowin' in the Wind" "Girl from the North Country" "Masters of War" "Down the Highway" "Bob Dylan's Blues" "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" "Bob Dylan's Dream" "Oxford Town" "Corrina, Corrina" "Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance" "I Shall Be Free"
The Times They Are a-Changin'	"The Times They Are a-Changin'" "Ballad of Hollis Brown" "With God on Our Side" "One Too Many Mornings" "North Country Blues" "Only a Pawn in Their Game" "Boots of Spanish Leather" "When the Ship Comes In" "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" "Restless Farewell"
Another Side of Bob Dylan	"All I Really Want to Do" "Black Crow Blues" "Spanish Harlem Incident" "Chimes of Freedom" "To Ramona" "Motorpsycho Nitemare" "My Back Pages" "I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)" "Ballad in Plain D" "It Ain't Me Babe"
Bringing It All Back Home	"Subterranean Homesick Blues" "She Belongs to Me" "Maggie's Farm" "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" "Outlaw Blues" "On the Road Again" "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" "Mr. Tambourine Man" "Gates of Eden" "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"
Highway 61 Revisited	"Like a Rolling Stone" "Tombstone Blues" "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" "From a Buick 6" "Ballad of a Thin Man" "Queen Jane Approximately" "Highway 61 Revisited" "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" "Desolation Row"
Blonde on Blonde	"Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35" "Pledging My Time" "Visions of Johanna" "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)" "I Want You" "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" "Just Like a Woman" "Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine" "Absolutely Sweet Marie" "4th Time Around" "Obviously 5 Believers" "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands"
John Wesley Harding	"John Wesley Harding" "As I Went Out One Morning" "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" "All Along the Watchtower" "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest" "Drifter's Escape" "I Am a Lonesome Hobo" "The Wicked Messenger" "Down Along the Cove" "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight"
Nashville Skyline	"Girl from the North Country" "To Be Alone with You" "I Threw It All Away" "Lay Lady Lay" "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You"
Other	"Mixed-Up Confusion" "Positively 4th Street" "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" "If You Gotta Go, Go Now"
Lists	Songs written by Dylan

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Gospel Plow

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Recordings[]

Published versions[]

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References[]