It was during the Great Depression that John Niles was searching the back countries and hills of Appalachia. He was looking for original folk music, and one day he comes to this little white spot on the road, known as Murphy, North Carolina, and happens on a band of a rather ragged itinerant evangelist, and just before a preacher Morgan is to get up on the backside of his car and preach, his little daughter, Annie starts to sing these words, "I wonder as I wander out under the sky, how Jesus the Savior did come forward to die for poor, awnry people like you, and like I." And from that little Annie Morgan through John Niles, one of the great songs of Christmas has passed down from Appalachia to us.
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