Lyr Add: Run to Jesus (Spiritual)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Run to Jesus (Spiritual)
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 15 Nov 11 - 07:57 PM

This seems to be one of the songs sought for the Spirituals Permathread.

Subject: Lyr Add: Run to Jesus (Spiritual)
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 15 Nov 11 - 06:32 PM

Lyr. Add: RUN TO JESUS
Spiritual; Jubilee Singers

Chorus-
Run to Jesus, shun the danger,
I don't expect to stay much longer here.

1
He will be our dearest friend,
And will help us to the end,
I don't expect to stay much longer here.
Chorus-
2
Oh, I thought I heard them say,
There were lions in the way,
I don't expect to stay much longer here.
Chorus-

3
Many mansions there will be,
One for you and one for me,
I don't expect to stay much longer here.
Chorus-

"This song was given to the Jubilee Singers by Hon. Frederick Douglass, at Washington, D. C., with the interesting statement, that it first suggested to him the thought of escaping from slavery."
Note preceeding the musical score. Score 4/4.

Jubilee and Plantation Songs, Characteristic Favorites, as sung by the Hampton Students, Jubilee Singers, Fisk University Students, and other Concert Companies.

1897, Oliver Ditson Company, Boston,p. 76.