60 Way Bye and Bye

1
Way bye and bye
Oh way bye and bye
We goin' to hab a good time
Way bye and bye.
2
I goin' to meet my brudduh dere
I goin' to meet my brudduh dere
We goin' to hab a good time
Way bye and bye.
3
I goin' to meet my Father dere (or mother, sister, etc.)
4
We don't need no gambler dere, etc.
5
We don't need no drunkards dere, etc.
6
We don't need no hypocrites dere, etc.
7
We need good Christians dere, etc.

Way in de Heaven Bye-and-Bye, with slightly different musical score, was collected on Frogmore Island, 1913, by Carl Diton, Thirty-six South Carolina Spirituals, G. Schirmer Inc. NY.
Not recorded in other collections.