[Music]
I'm trav'ling to my grave,
I'm trav'ling to my grave,
I'm trav'ling to my grave
To lay this body down.
My fathers died a-shouting,
rejoicing in the Lord;
The last word I heard them say
Was about Jerusalem,
The saints' delightful home.
The song is ascribed in the _Social Harp_ to John G. McCurry and Wm.
C. Davis and dated 1853. For a variant among the negro spiritual tunes
see _White Spirituals_, p. 261. Compare 'I'm a Long Time Traveling' in
this collection. Similarity is seen also between the above melody and
'The Merchant's Daughter', second tune, JFSS, i., 160.
No. 235
ON THE OTHER SIDE OF JORDAN, REV 465