Spiritual Folk-Songs of Early America Two Hundred and Fifty Tunes and Texts, with an Introduction and Notes

Part 18

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I I Am Bound for the Kingdom 205 I Belong to This Band (A) 220 I Belong to This Band (B) 181 I Can Not Tarry Here 247 I Can't Stay Away 153 I Don't Care to Stay Here Long 183 I Don't Expect to Stay 209 Idumea 137 I'll Ramble and I'll Rove 38 I Love Jesus 224 I Love Thee 134 I'm Alone In This World 219 I'm a Long Time Traveling 196 I'm a Poor Mourning Pilgrim 176 I'm Bound for the Land of Canaan 190 I'm Bound to Die In the Army 215 I'm Going Home 183 I'm Traveling to My Grave 234 I Never Shall Forget the Day 177 In Jesus' Blood 174 Invitation 63 I Shall Be Satisfied 148 It Won't Be Long 237 I Want a Seat In Paradise 240 I Want To Go There Too 231 I Want To Go To Glory 248 I Went Down To the Valley 207 I Will Arise 239 I Yield 250

J Jerusalem 143 Jester 220 Jesus Is My Friend (A) 150 Jesus Is My Friend (B) 236 John Adkins' Farewell 11 Jordan 86 Joyful 227 Judgment Scenes 175

K Kedron 57

L Land of Rest 81 Leander 107 Lebanon 66 Lep'rous Jew 44 Lisbon 247 Little Family 8 Liverpool 7 Lone Pilgrim 18 Lonesome Grove 34 Long-Sought Home 221 Look Out 32 Lost City 151

M Marion 38 Martin 193 Mecklinburg 94 Miss Hataway's Experience 9 Missionary's Farewell 56 Mississippi 99 Morning Trumpet 241 Moses 27 Mouldering Vine 22 Mount Watson 90 Mourner's Lamentation 28 My Bible Leads to Glory 233 My Father's Gone 178 My Home Is Over Jordan 154

N Nettleton 101 Never Get Tired 195 Never Turn Back (A) 217 Never Turn Back (B) 238 Newberry 34 New Britain 135 New Indian Song 230 New Orleans 139 New Prospect 133 North Port 240

O O Brother Be Faithful 203 O God What Shall I Say 213 O He's Taken My Feet 232 O I'm So Happy 155 O Land of Rest 133 Old Ship of Zion (A) 191 Old Ship of Zion (B) 210 Old-Time Religion 218 Old Troy 174 One More River to Cross 229 On the Other Side of Jordan 235 Orphan Girl 19 O Tell Me No More 130 O That Will Be Joyful 227 O Ye Young and Gay and Proud 111

P Paralytic 20 Parting Hymn 227 Patton 14 Penick 85 Pilgrim 98 Pilgrim's Song 113 Pilgrim's Triumph 118 Pisgah 123 Pleading Savior 100 Plenary 128 Poor Mourner's Found a Home 156 Poor Wayfaring Stranger 40 Praise God 106 Prodigal 49 Promise 216

R Ragan 181 Redemption (A) 48 Redemption (B) 46 Redemption (C) 12 Reflection 122 Religion Is a Fortune 187 Remember Sinful Youth 145 Rest In Heaven 73 Resurrected 178 Reverend James Axley's Song 3 Revival Song 167 River of Jordan 189 Roby 144 Roll Jordan 184 Romish Lady 1 Rose 104 Rose Tree 92 Royal Proclamation 84

S Sailor's Home 6 Saints' Rapture 61 Saint's Request 33 Salutation 36 Salvation (A) 89 Salvation (B) 95 Save Mighty Lord 198 Saw Ye My Savior 16 Sawyer's Exit 129 Say Brothers 202 Send Us a Blessing 206 Separation 54 Service of the Lord 215 Shouting Pilgrim 245 Shout On, Pray On 166 Sinner's Call 101 Sinner's Invitation 80 Sinners Turn 157 Sister Thou Wast Mild 103 Soldier's Return 67 Solemn Address to Young People 7 Solemn Thought 145 Something New 228 Soon We Shall Land 204 Spiritual Sailor 136 Spring Place 45 Stephens 53 Stockwood 103 Substantial Joys 231 Supplication 105 Sweet Canaan 190 Sweet Morning 168

T Take Me Home 219 Tender Care 121 Tennessee 24 That Lonesome Valley 214 Then My Troubles Will Be Over 177 There Is a Rest Remains 108 There's a Better Day 161 There Will Be Mourning 175 'Tis a Wonder 171 To Begging I Will Go 2 To Be With Christ 119 To Die No More 74 To Glory I Will Go 151 To Hear the Trumpet Sound 188 To Lay This Body Down 196 To Play On the Golden Harp 152 To Wear a Starry Crown 178 Traveler 234 Tribulation 69

U Union 39

V Vesper 55 Victoria 229 Villulia 21 Volunteers 70

W Walk and Talk With Jesus 230 War Department 115 Warfare 243 Warrenton 205 Washington 52 Way Over In the Promised Land 193 Wedlock (A) 13 Wedlock (B) 43 Weeping Mary (A) 164 Weeping Mary (B) 47 Weeping Pilgrim 176 Weeping Savior 146 We'll All Praise God 185 We'll End This War 182 We'll Land On Shore 160 We'll March Around Jerusalem 180 We'll Shout and Give Him Glory 167 We'll Stem the Storm 201 Western Melody 179 When I Was Young 32 When We all Get to Heaven 187 Where All Is Peace and Love 162 Where Will You Stand 165 White 196 Wicked Polly 26 Wings of the Morning 179 With Us To the End 216 Wondrous Love 88 Worthy the Lamb 141

Y Yongst 76 You May Tell Them Father 176

Z Zion's Soldier 41

Index of First Lines

(Italicized numbers, used where reference is made to several songs with the same first lines, indicate where the _fuller_ text is given.)

A Number Afflictions, though they seem severe 24, _49_ Alas, and did my Savior bleed 223, 229, 250 Amazing grace, how sweet the sound 135 And am I born to die 137 And let this feeble body fail 225 An' Phareeoh's daughter went down to the water 27 Are there anybody here like Mary a-weeping 164 As on the cross the Savior hung 23, _35_

B Beautiful home, sweet home, beautiful 222 Be gone, unbelief, my Savior is near 117 Behold the lep'rous Jew 44 Brethren, we have met to worship 114 Bright scenes of glory strike my sense 67, _94_

C Children of the heavenly King 243 Christ is set on Zion's hill 41 Come, all my dear brethren and help me sing 173 Come, all ye mourning pilgrims dear 98 Come all ye young people of every relation 12 Come along, come along and let us go home 210 Come and taste along with me 185 Come, brothers and sisters who love one another 39 Come, friends and relations _46_, 48 Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly dove 131 Come, humble sinner in whose breast 95 Come life, come death, come then what will 150 Come, saints and sinners, hear me tell 37 Come, thou fount of every blessing _101_, 160 Come to Jesus, come to Jesus 159 Come, ye sinners, poor and needy 239 Come, ye that love the Lord 78

D Dark was the hour, Gethsemane 77 Death, ain't you got no shame 158 Death shall not destroy my comfort 90 Death, 'tis a melancholy day 69 Did Christ o'er sinners weep 146 Did Christ the great example lead 91 Dismiss us with thy blessing, Lord 52 Do I not love thee, O my Lord 147 Drooping souls, no longer grieve 62, 116

F Farewell, dear brethren in the Lord 247 Farewell, vain world, I'm going home _152_, 153, 181, 183, 215 Father, I sing thy wondrous grace 76 Forever here my rest shall be 200 Friends of freedom, swell the song 112 From whence doth this union arise 53

G Glory to God on high 141 Good morning, brother pilgrim 36 Go, preachers, and tell it to the world 156

H Hail the day so long expected 192 Hail! ye sighing sons of sorrow 22 Hark, from the tombs a doleful sound 128 Hark, I hear the harps eternal 63 Hark, listen to the trumpeters _70_, 182 Hark, my soul, it is the Lord 64 Hear the royal proclamation 84 He comes, he comes, the Judge severe 184 Here at thy table, Lord, we meet 68 High in yonder realms of light 61 High o'er the hills the mountains rise 96 How bright is the day when the Christian 129 How can I vent my grief 71 How condescending and how kind 30 How long, O Lord our Savior 132 How lost was my condition _31_, 127 How pleasant thus to dwell below 227 How tedious and tasteless the hours _60_, 149

I I am a poor wayfaring stranger 40 I came to the place where the lone pilgrim lay 18 I'd rather live a beggar while here on earth I stay 2 If I in thy likeness, O Lord 148 If our fathers want to go 220 If you get there before I do 244 I have a loving old father at home 38 I know that my Redeemer lives 166 I'll praise him while he gives me breath 232 I love thee, I love thee 134 I love the holy Son of God 140 I'm dying, mother, dying now 15 I'm not ashamed to own my Lord 87 I'm thinking today of the church of my youth 45 I'm trav'ling to my grave 234 I pitch my tent on this camp ground 226 I sing a song which doth belong 29 I've a long time heard that there will be a judgment 165 I've listed in the holy war 212 I went down to the valley to pray 207

J Jerusalem, my happy home 143, _221_ Jesus, and shall it ever be 97 Jesus, I love thy charming name 126 Jesus, my all, to heav'n is gone _189_, 198, 209, 216, 224, 231, 237, 238, 240, 248 Jesus, thou art the sinner's friend 123 Judgment day is rolling on 175

L Lay up nearer, brother, nearer 10 Lift up your heads, Immanuel's friends _72_, 169 Lord, I believe a rest remains 108 Lord, shed a beam of heavenly day 65

M Man at his first creation in Eden God did place 5 Mercy, O thou son of David 21 Mourning souls, no longer grieve 66 My bible leads to glory 233 My brethren all, on you I call 83 My father's gone to glory 219 My father's gone to view that land 178 My God, my Portion and my Love 79 My heavenly home is bright and fair 74 My home is over Jordan 154 My rest is in heaven 73 My soul forsakes her vain delight 107 My soul's full of glory inspiring my tongue _110_, 172

N "No home, no home," plead a little girl 19 No more shall the sound of the war-whoop be heard 115 No sleep nor slumber to his eyes 122 Not many years their rounds shall roll 82 Now see the Savior stands pleading 100