[Music]
When I'm happy, hear me sing,
When I'm happy, hear me sing,
When I'm happy, hear me sing,
Give me Jesus;
Give me Jesus,
Give me Jesus;
You may have all the world,
Give me Jesus.
When in sorrow, hear me pray, _three times_
Give me Jesus, _etc._
When I'm dying, hear me cry, _three times_
Give me Jesus, _etc._
When I'm rising, hear me shout, _three times_
Give me Jesus, _etc._
When in heaven, we will sing, _three times_
Blessed Jesus, _etc._
By thy grace we are saved, _three times_
Blessed Jesus, _etc._
The noting of this tune, evidently from oral tradition, will be seen
as quite faulty. A close variant of the song was found by Miss
Gilchrist in the _Wesleyan Psalmist_ and reproduced by her, JFSS,
viii., 88. 'Sweet William and Lady Margaret', Davis, p. 570, is
similar throughout to this tune. A negro version is in Marsh, p. 140,
under the same title. The compilers of _Slave Songs_ rejected a song
called 'Give Me Jesus' as "spurious", that is, as being of white
origin. (See _Slave Songs_, p. vi.)
No. 209
I DON'T EXPECT TO STAY or DONE WITH THE WORLD, OSH 88