Tell me how did you feel, when you come out of the wilderness?
How did you feel, when you come out of the wilderness?
How did you feel, when you come out of the wilderness?
Lean and lonely lord

Well, I felt like shouting, when I came out of the wilderness.
I felt like shouting, when I came out of the wilderness.
I felt like clapping, when I came out of the wilderness.
Leaning on the Lord

Well, I told everybody, when I come out the wilderness.
I told everybody, when I come out the wilderness.
I told everybody, when I cme out the wilderness.
Lean and lonely Lord

Tell me how did you feel, when you come out the wilderness?
How did you feel, when you come out the wilderness?
How did you feel, when you come out the wilderness?
Lean and lonely Lord

Well, I felt like shouting, when I come out the wilderness.
I felt like shouting, when I come out the wilderness.
I felt like shouting, when I come out the wilderness.
Lean and lonely Lord

Well, I told everybody, when I come out the wilderness.
I told everybody, when I come out the wilderness.
I told everybody, when I come out the wilderness.
Lean and lonely Lord

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Ain't I glad to get out of the wilderness

Notes: This well-known (camp meeting?) hymn/song was likely the basis of many contrafacta (see, e.g., H.T. Bryant, Balm of Gilead). The burlesque jubilee group Olympia Quartette sang a contrafactum called Hard-shell Baptist, found in Olympia Quartette Songster (New York: New York Popular Publishing Co., n.d. [ca. 1881]), p. 9, LC, Music Division, Dumont Collection.

Lyrics:

1st tenor: I've got a sister in de wilderness
All: De wilderness, de wilderness.
2nd tenor: I've got a brother in de wilderness,
All: Working for de Lord.
Baritone: I've got a cousin in de wilderness, de wilderness, de wilderness
Basso: I've got an uncle on the Bowery, working against de Lord.
Chorus
Hard shell Baptist git out de wilderness (repeat 2x)
Hard shell Baptist git out de wilderness, Wait for de Lord.

Verse 2 begins "Didn't my Lord deliver Brother Daniel" and verse 3 begins "But my Lord he didn't like Pharaoh."

Anthologies for "Hard-shell Baptist": Williams & Sully's Dandy Colored Coons Songster (New York Popular Publishing Co., n.d.), LC, Music Division, Dumont Collection
Recordings: Ain't I glad… is part of Balm of Gilead as recorded by Harry C. Browne, Early Minstrel Songs Recorded 1916–1923 (British Archive of Country Music, BACM CD D 076).


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