[Music]
My father's gone to glory, I'm alone in this world,
my father's gone to glory, I'm alone.
My father's gone to glory, I'm alone in this world;
Take me home, dear Savior take me home.
Recorded by the author from the singing of Samuel E. Asbury, September
10, 1932, at Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. Asbury learned it in his
boyhood in the 1880's, from hearing it at camp meetings in western
North Carolina. Subsequent verses substitute "my mother," "my sister,"
etc. A negro version of the tune is in _Slave Songs_, p. 18.
No. 220
JESTER or I BELONG TO THIS BAND (A), OSH 531