[Music]
On Jordan's stormy banks I stand
And cast a wishful eye,
To Canaan's fair and happy land
Where my possessions lie.
I am bound for the promis'd land,
I'm bound for the promised land;
Oh, who will come and go with me,
I am bound for the promised land.
Further stanzas of the text are given under 'Jordan'. The combination
here of the widely sung words of Samuel Stennett and an especially
folkish revival phrase has resulted in an enormously well liked
spiritual. Found also SOH 51, HH 154, SOC 114, HOC 47, WP 53, GOS 512.
Its first appearance in the fasola books seems to have been in the
_Southern Harmony_ of 1835 where it is attributed to Miss M. Durham.
The tune is like 'I'll Go and Enlist for a Sailor', Sharp, _Morris
Dances_, Set viii, No. 6.
No. 247
LISBON or I CAN NOT TARRY HERE, SOC 182