Found also in GOS 254. How the post-Civil War negroes sang this song to pieces and then patched it together with fragments of ‘[Exhilaration]’, another song in this collection, is made clear by reference to Slave Songs, p. 74, No. 97. The tune of ‘Trooper and the Maid’, Sharp, i., 305, is the same as that of ‘Sweet Morning’.
No. 169
[GOOD OLD WAY (A)], OSH 213
Pentatonic, mode 3 (I II III — V VI —)
Lift up your heads, Immanuel’s friends,
O halle, hallelujah;
And taste the pleasure Jesus sends,
O halle, hallelujah.
Let nothing cause you to delay,
O halle, hallelujah;