I originally posted my query here on behalf of a friend, Steve Goldfield.

Someone gave him the answer and I'm posting it here. I believe Paul Wells is at East Tennessee State University.

-Greg

I got the full details from my friend, Paul Wells,
Director of the Center for Popular Music.

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I've long since zapped the original query about this, but we have the
song as "Going to Live in Green Pastures," copyrighted 1963 by Stamps
Quartet Music Co., Inc., words and music attributed to H.W. VanHoose.
It appears in the songbook "Vict'ry Road," published by the Stamps
Quartet Music Co. in 1963.
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Thanks to Don Talley, who couldn't post here but also sent
me the name of the author.

So a toast to Mr. or Ms. VanHoose and also to the Cook
Family. I'll check and see if I've got their version
for the raw power of human singing.

Steve