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Thread #98303   Message #1944842
Posted By: Azizi
22-Jan-07 - 06:29 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: More African American Spirituals
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Weary Traveler
WEARY TRAVELER

Let us cheer the weary traveler
Cheer the weary traveler.
Let us cheer the weary traveler
Along the heav-en-ly way.

Verse 1
I'll take my gospel trum-pet,
And I'll be-gin to blow,
And if my Sav-ior helps me,
I'll blow whe-ev er I go.

Verse 2
And if you meet with cross-es,
And tri-als along the way,
Just keep your trust in Je-sus
And don't for-get to pray.

Verse 3.
If you can-not sing like Angels,
If you can-not pray like Paul,
You can tell the love of Je-sus
And say He died for all.
Pg. 17

HAIL! HAIL! HAIL!
Children hail! hail! hail!
I'm go-ing to join the saints a-bove,
Hail! hail! hail!
I'm on my jour-ney home

Verse 1
O, look up yonder what I see
I'm on my jour-ney home,
Bright an-gels com-ing af-ter me,
I'm on my jour-ney home.

Verse 2
If you get there be-fore I do
Look after me I'm coming too,

Verse 3
O hal-le-lu-jah to the Lamb!
King Je-sus died for ev-ery man,

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Source: Ashley Bryant "I'm Going To Sing-Black American Spirituals Volume II." {New York, Atheneum, 1982; p.23}