Lyr. Add: HUMBLE YOURSELF, THE BELL DONE RUNG
Spiritual

1. Live humble, humble, humble yourself, the bell done rung;
Solo
I tried to live humble and I couldn't live humble;
I tried to preach humble and I couldn't preach humble;
I tried to preach humble and I couldn't preach humble.

2. If you want to see old Satan fall,
Load and shoot him with the Gospel ball;
If you want to see Satan fall,
Live humble, etc.

3. See the hearse a-come rolling around,
Carrying off the body to the new burying ground;
See the hearse a-come rolling around,
Live humble, etc.

4. Behold I stand on the sea of glass,
The sea of glass all mingled with fire;
God's going to raise-a my soul up higher,
Live humble, etc.

No. 130, with music, "Negro Spirituals, or the Songs of the Jubilee Singers." Published by W. J. Gibbs, Bromley, Kent.

Lyr. Add: LIVE A HUMBLE
Spiritual

Live a humble, humble,
Humble yourselves, the bell's done rung.

Glory and honor! Praise King Jesus!
Glory and honor! Praise the Lord!
Live a humble etc.

(After repeat, go to verse)
1. Watch that sun, steady he runs,
Don't let him catch you with your work undone.
Live a humble etc.

2. Ever see such a man as God!
He gave up his Son for to come and die.
Gave up his Son for to come and die,
Just to save my soul from a burning fire,
Live a humble, etc.

3. See God 'n' you see God 'n' you see God in the morning,
He'll come riding down the line of time;
The fire'll be falling, He'll be calling,
"Come to judgement come,"
Live a humble, etc.

John W. Work, 1940, "American Negro Songs and Spirituals," p. 184.
In 1937, T. Jefferson Cleveland made a new arrangement of the harmony: No. 108, "Songs of Zion," 1981, ed. Cleveland and Verolga Nix, Abingdon Press.

See Cleveland Index for other versions. Dett added a version in "Religious Folk-Songs of the Negro," additions to Fenner's "Cabin and Plantation Songs" (in 1926?) but the spiritual does not occur in Fenner, as noted mistakenly in the Cleveland Index.