His foot-steps I will follow still,
Jesus is my friend.
Jesus is my friend,
O hallelujah!
Jesus is my friend.
In the Sacred Harp of 1859 this song, tune and words, is attributed to the Georgian, J. P. Rees. I have heard my negro servant, Annie Ware, singing it, or fragments of it including the final phrase, “Jesus is my friend,” in Nashville, Tennessee, 1932. It is found also GOS 652.
No. 151
[LOST CITY] or [TO GLORY I WILL GO], OSH 320
Heptatonic ionian, mode 3 A + b (I II III IV V VI VII)
O when shall I see Jesus