Blessed Jesus, etc.
By thy grace we are saved, three times
Blessed Jesus, etc.
The noting of this tune, evidently from oral tradition, will be seen as quite faulty. A close variant of the song was found by Miss Gilchrist in the Wesleyan Psalmist and reproduced by her, JFSS, viii., 88. ‘Sweet William and Lady Margaret’, Davis, p. 570, is similar throughout to this tune. A negro version is in Marsh, p. 140, under the same title. The compilers of Slave Songs rejected a song called ‘Give Me Jesus’ as “spurious”, that is, as being of white origin. (See Slave Songs, p. vi.)
No. 209
[I DON’T EXPECT TO STAY] or DONE WITH THE WORLD, OSH 88
Pentatonic, mode 3 (I II III — V VI —)
Jesus, my all, to heav’n is gone,
And I don’t expect to stay much longer here;
He whom I fix my hopes upon,