Are there anybody here like Mary a-weeping?
Call to my Jesus and he’ll draw nigh.
Are there anybody here like Peter a-sinking?
Call to my Jesus and he’ll draw nigh.
Glory, glory, glory, glory,
Glory be to my God on high.
Attributed in the Sacred Harp to “John G. McCurry & Power” and dated 1852. For a variant of this tune used among the negroes see White Spirituals, 256. Miss Gilchrist states that the text of this song is No. 51 in the first English Primitive Methodist Hymn Book, about 1823.
No. 165
[GREAT DAY] or WHERE WILL YOU STAND, OSH 386
Pentachordal, cannot be classified (I II 3 IV V — —)