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Thread #107525   Message #2741310
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
08-Oct-09 - 02:02 PM
Thread Name: ADD/Info: Cross Over to the Other Side of Jordan
Subject: Lyr. Add: I'm Just A-goin' Over Jordan (spiritual)
Lyr. Add: I'm Just A-goin' Over Home
Spiritual Arr. William Arms Fisher

I'm just a-goin' over Jordan,
I'm just a-goin' over home,
I'm just a-goin' over Jordan,
I'm just a goin' over home.

I'm goin' there to meet my mother, (father, sister)
I know she'll (he'll) meet me when I come.
I'm just a-goin' over Jordan,
I'm just a-goin' over home.

3/4, musical score, pp. 88-89, William Arms Fisher, 1926, "Seventy Negro Spirituals," for low voice; quarto, Oliver Ditson Company, Boston.

Other verses are added in different versions; the title often is given as "I'm Just A-goin' Over Home."

(If I hit 'enter' after Subject, the title is posted. My error.)