I'M BOUND FOR THE LAND OF CANAAN or SWEET CANAAN, OSH 87
(No. 190)

O who will come and go with me?
I am bound for the land of Canaan
I'm bound fair Canaan's land to see
I am bound for the land of Canaan

O Canaan, sweet Canaan
I'm bound for the land of Canaan
Sweet Canaan 'tis my happy home
I'm bound for the land of Canaan

I'll join with those who're gone before, etc.
Where sin and sorrow are no more, etc.

(chorus)

If you get there before I do, etc.
Look for me, I'm coming too, etc.

(chorus)

Source:
George Pullen Jackson, Spiritual Folk-Songs of Early America (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1964; first published in 1937), p. 198

Notes:
"Text is based on a poem by Watts. The stanzas which are associated with the above are numerous, and are also the refrains and choruses. Found also BHTBK (1857), p. 334; and MHTBK (1889), No. 885. In The Musical Quarterly, vol. xxii., No. 2, I have shown the relationship between the above tune and Stephen Foster's 'The Glendy Burk' and 'Old Uncle Ned.' See also Dett, p. 188, for a negro song showing some textual and melodic influences."