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Thread #129086 Message #2904754
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
11-May-10 - 05:46 PM
Thread Name: Jubilee Songs, Fisk Jubilee Singers
Subject: Keep Your Lamps trimmed and Burning
No. 71. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning
Keep your lamps trimmed and burning,
Keep your lamps trimmed and burning,
Keep your lamps trimmed and burning,
For this work's almost done.
Brothers, don't grow weary,
Brothers, don't grow weary,
Brothers, don't grow weary,
For this work's almost done.
Keep your lamps trimmed and burning,
Keep your lamps trimmed and burning,
Keep your lamps trimmed and burning,
For this work's almost done.
Preachers, don't grow weary, etc.
Keep your lamps trimmed and burning, etc.
'Tis religion makes us happy,
'Tis religion makes us happy,
'Tis religion makes us happy,
For this work's almost done.
We are climbing Jacob's ladder, etc.
Every round goes higher and higher, etc.