[Music]
We have our trials here below,
O glory hallelujah!
We have our trials here below,
O glory hallelujah!
There's a better day a-coming,
Hallelujah!
There's a better day a-coming,
Hallelujah!
A few more beating winds and rains,
O glory hallelujah!
A few more beating winds and rains,
O glory hallelujah!
And the winter will be over,
Hallelujah!
And the winter will be over,
Hallelujah!
A few more rising and setting suns
And we'll all cross over Jordan.
I feel no ways like getting tired,
I am making for the harbor.
I hope to get there by and by,
My home is over Jordan.
There are four more stanzas. The song is found also in KNH 52. Both
Walker, compiler of the _Southern Harmony_, and Davisson, compiler of
the _Kentucky Harmony_, laid claim to its authorship.
They were doubtlessly both recorders of this same piece of unwritten
music. That was in the 1830's. See the first phrase of 'Glorishears'
(Sharp, _Morris Dances_ Set 5, No. 6) for melodic similarities. The
above song, both tune and words, inspired the composition of
'Christian's Hope' in this collection. A negro remake of tune and
words is in Dett, p. 36.
No. 162
CHRISTIAN'S HOPE or WHERE ALL IS PEACE AND LOVE, OSH 506