Shall glory, glory, glory be.
Chorus.
I have no information as to the tune excepting that it appeared in the earliest edition of the Sacred Harp, that is, in 1844. The tune and the words of its chorus have served the negroes in the construction of ‘Almost Over’, SS, No. 97.
No. 178
[RESURRECTED] or MY FATHER’S GONE or AWAY OVER YONDER or TO WEAR A STARRY CROWN, OSH 524
Pentatonic, mode 3 (I II III — V VI —)
My father’s gone to view that land,
My father’s gone to view that land,
My father’s gone to view that land
To wear a starry crown,