Look out for me, I’m coming too, I am etc.
Chorus
Text is based on a poem by Watts. The stanzas which are associated with the above are numerous, as are also the refrains and choruses. Found also BHTBK (1857), p. 334; and MHTBK (1889), No. 885. In The Musical Quarterly, vol. xxii., No. 2, I have shown the relationship between the above tune and Stephen Foster’s ‘The Glendy Burk’ and ‘Old Uncle Ned’. See also Dett, p. 188, for a negro song showing some textual and melodic influences.
No. 191
[OLD SHIP OF ZION (A)], OSH 79
Pentatonic, mode 3 (I II III — V VI —)
What ship is this that will take us all home?
O glory hallelujah,
And safely land us on Canaan’s bright shore?
O glory hallelujah.