There is another gospel song ("Come on in this house") that sounds (to me) a lot more like what might have flowed out of the spirituals tradition.

It's hard to be sure, tho, anytime someone sez a song "is a spiritual"-- for many reasons.

One reason is that authentic spirituals ARE still flowing out of memory, bubbling up in present generations from songs learned from the grandmothers. For this reason the "Spirituals" permathread lists ANY song whose possible spirituals relationship is discussed-- not to "label" the song as a spiritual but to make a discussion about it findable.

~Susan