“It is an old melody”, J. S. James, editor of the 1911 Original Sacred Harp, says. “Prof. T. S. Carter of Georgia took the outlines and arranged it in 1844.”
The tune is found also, SOC 77, GOS 178. A variant is GOS 165, entitled ‘Lonesome Dove’. Another variant is ‘The Weary Soul’, OSH 72. I find this tune to be a member of the group which I have called the ‘[Roll Jordan]’ family of melodies. See the song with that title in this collection.
No. 83
[ALBERT], SOC 153
Heptatonic ionian, mode 3 A + b (I II III IV V VI VII)
My brethren all, on you I call,
Arise and look around you,
How many foes bound to oppose,
Who’re waiting to confound you;
How many foes bound to oppose,