The tune (also titled SONG OF TEXAS) was adopted for "Ye objects of sense and enjoyments of time" (Benjamin Francis) in C.H. Cayce's Good Old Songs (1913, 538). It is quoted in Jackson's Down-East Spirituals and Others (no. 201). James W. Palmer (probably a different person) of Lexington, Kentucky, compiled the Western Harmonic Companion in 1826 (Jackson, White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands, p. 43).