Like soldiers in the good old way.

O good old way, how sweet thou art!

May none of us from thee depart;

But may our actions always say

We’re marching in the good old way!

“A tune and song [words] of the Granade period”, William Hauser, compiler of the Olive Leaf suggests. John Adam Granade was an evangelist of the “wild” sort who lived 1775 to 1806. A negro tune which combines elements of the above and ‘[I Went Down to the Valley]’, in this collection, is in Slave Songs, No. 104.

No. 73
[REST IN HEAVEN], OL 358

Hexatonic, mode 2 A minorized (I II 3 IV V — 7 [VII])

My rest is in heaven, my rest is not here,