Lyr. Add: IN THAT GREAT GETTING-UP MORNING
Hampton Students; 1880's, in J. B. T. Marsh

1.
I'm a-going to tell you about the coming of the Saviour,
Fare you well! Fare you well!
I'm a-going to tell you about the coming of the Saviour,
Fare you well! Fare you well!
There's a better day a-coming,
Fare you well! Fare you well!
Prayer-makers, pray no more,
Fare you well! Fare you well!
Oh, preachers, fold your Bibles,
Fare you well! Fare you well!
For the last soul's converted,
Fare you well! Fare you well!

In that great getting-up morning,
Fare you well! Fare you well!
In that great getting-up morning,
Fare you well! Fare you well!
2.
The Lord spoke to Gabriel:
Go look behind the altar,
Take down the silver trumpet,
Blow your trumpet, Gabriel.
Lord, how shall I blow it?
Blow it right calm and easy,
Do not alarm my people,
Tell them to come to judgement;
Gabriel, blow your trumpet,
Lord, how loud shall I blow it?
Loud as seven peals of thunder!
Wake the sleeping nations.
3.
Then you'll see poor sinners rising;
Then you'll see the world on fire;
See the moon a-bleeding,
See the stars falling,
See the elements melting,
See the forked lightning,
Hear the rumbling thunder;
Earth shall reel and totter.
Then you'll see the Christians rising;
Then you'll see the righteous marching,
See them marching home to heaven.
Then you'ss see my Jesus coming
With all His holy angels,
Take the righteous home to heaven,
There they'll live with God for ever.

No. 110, with score, pp. 240-241, J. B. T. Marsh, 1880's, "The Story of the Jubilee Singers; With Their Songs." (Seventy-fifth Thousand)
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston.
Not in original histories by Pike; new songs added (including this one.)
The "Index to Negro Spirituals," The Cleveland Public Library, lists this song as being in Fenner, but it was added after his death to a later edition, 1891 or later: See R. Nathaniel Dett, 1927, "Religious Folk Songs of the Negro as Sung at Hampton Institute, pp. 154-156, with additional verses and somewhat different arrangement.