[Music]
On Jordan's stormy banks I stand
And cast a wishful eye
To Canaan's fair and happy land,
Where my possessions lie.
_Chorus_
We'll stem the storm, it won't be long,
The heav'nly port is nigh.
We'll stem the storm, it won't be long,
We'll anchor by and by.
The words, given more fully under 'Jordan', are Samuel Stenett's. The
_Sacred Harp_ editors attribute the tune to Elder Edmund Dumas, the
Georgia Primitive Baptist preacher, who was at the same time a zealous
musician of the fasola variety. A close melodic relative is 'O How I
love Jesus', REV 456. It will be seen as akin to 'Merrily we Roll
Along'. The tune as adopted by the negroes is found in Dett, p. 189.
No. 202
SAY BROTHERS, REV 173