[Music]
Farewell, vain world, I'm going home,
I am bound to die in the army;
My Savior smiles and bids me come,
I am bound to die in the army;
I am bound to live in the service of my Lord,
I am bound to die in the army.
Further stanzas of the text are given under 'Golden Harp'. A variant
of this tune is 'Promise' in this collection. 'Antioch' in this
collection, is also related. The tune 'Service of the Lord' or
'Antioch' seems to have been borrowed by those who sang 'Little
Musgrave and Lady Barnard' as it is found in Sharp, i., 162.
Indications that the direction of borrowing was as suggested may be
found in the misfit of words to tune in the secular song. See for
example where the "ar-my" of the above tune and the "-lu-jah" of
'Antioch' correspond to a mere repetition, "all, all", in the 'Little
Musgrave' song. 'Cruel Mother', Sharp, i., 61, tune K, is also closely
related to 'Service of the Lord'. For negro adoptions and adaptations
see Grissom, p. 60; Marsh, p. 169; _White Spirituals_, pp. 266 and
267; and Dett, p. 120.
No. 216
PROMISE or WITH US TO THE END, SOC 73