Refrain: When the rocks and the mountains shall all pass away, And you shall have a new hiding place that day.
1. Doubter, doubter, give up your heart to God, And you shall have a new hiding place that day. 2. Mourner, mourner, give up your heart to God, And you shall have a new hiding place that day. 3. Sinner, sinner, give up your heart to God, etc. 4. Sister, sister, give up your heart to God, etc. 5. Mother, mother, give up your heart to God, etc. 6. Children, children, give up your heart to God, etc.
This song follows a common procedure in a number of Af-Am religious songs of the 19th c. - a statement is made, and then applied to family members and others in a series of very simple verses.
Nashville Students, 1884; reference same as for preceeding jubilee songs.
Jubilee had several uses in the 19th c. 1. A religious camp meeting, White or Black (I remember the 60's folk singers tried to apply the term to a big get-together). 2. Celebration of emancipation. 3. Celebration of an event that took place a set period of years before (marriage, reign, etc.). 4. A religious song (see comment by Azizi, above). The Jubilee Singers, etc. (Can't remember exactly, but I think that it was in the 1880's that the term 'spiritual' was first applied in a magazine article to some Black religious song).
Nowadays, the term usually marks a celebration (3., above) (The papacy had a jubilee marking 700 years and there was the famous Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897 marking 60 years of her reign).
And of course there are Cherries Jubilee, that grand dessert, created by Escoffier in 1887 to mark the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria.