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Thread #129086   Message #2902855
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
08-May-10 - 08:08 PM
Thread Name: Jubilee Songs, Fisk Jubilee Singers
Subject: In that Great Getting-up Morning
No. 110. In that Great Getting-up Morning
"As sung by the Hampton Students"

1
I'm a-going to tell you about the coming of the Saviour,
*Fare you well! Fare you well!
I'm a going to tell you about the coming of the Saviour,
Fare you well, Fare you well!
There's a better day a-coming,
Fare you well! Fare you well !
Oh, preachers fold your Bibles,
Fare you well! Fare you well!
For the last soul's converted,
Fare you well! Fare you well!

Refrain
In that great getting-up morning,
Fare you well! Fare you well!
In that great getting-up morning,
Fare you well! Fare you well!

The Lord spoke to Gabriel:
Go look behind the altar,
Take down the silver trumpet,
Blow your trumpet, Gabriel.
Lord, how loud shall I blow it?
Blow it right calm and easy,
Do not alarm My people,
Tell them to come to judgement;
Gabriel, blow your trumpet.
Lord, how loud shall I blow it?
Loud as seven peals of thunder!
Wake the sleeping nations.
3
Then you'll see poor sinners rising;
Then you'll see the world on fire;
See the moon a-bleeding,
See the stars falling,
See the elements melting,
See the forked lightning,
Hear the rumbling thunder;
Earth shall reel and totter.
Then you'll see the Christians rising;
Then you'll see the righteous marching,
See them marching home to heaven.
Then you'll see my Jesus coming
With all His holy angels,
Take the righteous home to heaven,
There they'll live with God forever.

*Fare you well is used tutti between solo lines in the Hampton version published by Fenner 1874 (Dett); in the Jubilee printings, some of the lines have been changed from those used at Hampton and there are other revisions. Dialect is preserved in the Fenner (Dett) printings of Hampton songs.

The extended Hampton version will be posted in thread 101413.
In that Great