Album: High Atmosphere: Ballads and Banjo Tunes from Virginia and North Carolina collected by John Cohen in November 1965

Singer: E.C. Ball

WARFARE

Refrain:       My warfare will soon be ended
                   My race is nearly run
                   My warfare will soon be ended
                   And I am a-going home

My Lord told His disciples
"After I'm risen and gone
You will meet with troubles and trials
But bear your rebukes and scorn"
    Refrain

You can rebuke me all you want to
I'm traveling home to God
I'm well acquainted with the crosses
And all my ways are hard

They say my Lord is a devil
They call his saints the same
I'm not expecting any more down here
Than grief and scorn and shame

God bless them holiness people
The Presbyterians too
The good ol' shouting Methodists
And the praying Baptists too

And when you get to Heaven
I want to see you there
And when I say "Amen"
I want you to say so too.
      Refrain