[Music]
When to that blessed world I rise,
I'll never turn back any more;
And join the anthems in the skies,
I'll never turn back any more.
Any more, any more, any more, my Lord,
I'll never turn back any more.
This was a recording from the 1840's. Another, in the _Social Harp_ of
1855, p. 52, has the more indigenous reading "I'll never turn back no
more." See 'Never Turn Back (B)' in this collection. A negro variant
is in Marsh, p. 174. John Powell tells me that Lydia, negro servant in
the Powell house in Richmond, Virginia, and a remarkable singer, sings
a variant of this tune to the words:
King cried: "no mo', no mo', my Lord,
I'll never turn to go back to E-jup Land no mo'."
No. 218
OLD-TIME RELIGION