For tune relationships see ‘[Heaven’s My Home]’ and ‘[Happy Souls (B)]’ in this collection. John G. McCurry claims the tune in the Social Harp. It is taken bodily from ‘Wearing of the Green’. A very similar negro spiritual tune is in Dett, p. 42.
No. 175
[THERE WILL BE MOURNING] or [JUDGMENT SCENES], OL 337
Hexatonic, mode 3 b (I II III IV V VI —)
Judgment day is rolling on,
Judgment day is rolling on,
Judgment day is rolling on
As fast as time can move.
Oh, there will be mourning,
Mourning, mourning, mourning,