Wade in the Water....

 Wade in the Water

The song is about escaping slaves who bathed in water to get read of the scent they give so dogs are useless in finding them, they even got children to go into the water to clean themselves of the scent.

The Secret messages in this song was probably used to tell children,women and men how to get rid of their scent and they were also.

They even talked about Israelite a tribe in Africa, maybe when escaping or people who escaped saw these people who are from Israelite. They even saw children from Israelite:

Who's that young girl dressed in white
Wade in the water
Must be the children of the Israelite

Harriet Tubman was a ex-slave who saved slaves by her underground Railroad, it's not an actual underground Railroad it's more like a human train that went through secret passages to escape.

She rescued heaps of slaves and that's how she is so famous.

These events still happens but in different ways, black people are still being treated wrongly by people and the police still have corrupted cops..

Wade in the water
Wade in the water
Children wade, in the water
God's gonna trouble the water
Who's that young girl dressed in red
Wade in the water
Must be the children that Moses led
God's gonna trouble the water

Wade in the water, wade in the water children
Wade in the water,
God's gonna trouble the water

Who's that young girl dressed in white
Wade in the water
Must be the children of the Israelite
Oh, God's gonna trouble the water

Wade in the water, wade in the water children
Wade in the water,
God's gonna trouble the water

Who's that young girl dressed in blue
Wade in the water
Must be the children that's coming through,
God's gonna trouble the water, yeah

Wade in the water, wade in the water children
Wade in the water,
God's gonna trouble the water

You don't believe I've been redeemed,
Wade in the water
Just so the whole lake goes looking for me
God's gonna trouble the water

Wade in the water, wade in the water children
Wade in the water.
God's gonna trouble the water.

Highlighted Part 1:

The part about Moses is that the children and parents were praying to god or their religious beliefs to give them hope.

Highlighted Part 2:

This is talking about the children of another tribe arriving and being scared, and also telling them what to do when they try escape.

Highlighted Part 3:

This is still about new children who are getting forced to wear English clothes to sell.