We’ll stem the storm, it won’t be long,
The heav’nly port is nigh.
We’ll stem the storm, it won’t be long,
We’ll anchor by and by.
The words, given more fully under ‘Jordan’, are Samuel Stenett’s. The Sacred Harp editors attribute the tune to Elder Edmund Dumas, the Georgia Primitive Baptist preacher, who was at the same time a zealous musician of the fasola variety. A close melodic relative is ‘O How I love Jesus’, REV 456. It will be seen as akin to ‘Merrily we Roll Along’. The tune as adopted by the negroes is found in Dett, p. 189.
No. 202
[SAY BROTHERS], REV 173
Heptatonic ionian, mode 3 A + b (I II III IV V VI VII)
Say, brothers, will you meet us?
Say, brothers, will you meet us?