This chorus material, words and tune, is used also in ‘[He’s Promised to be With You]’ in this collection. See for tune relationships also ‘Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard’, Sharp, i., 162.
No. 217
[NEVER TURN BACK (A)], OSH 381
Pentatonic, cannot be classified (I II 3 — V — 7)
When to that blessed world I rise,
I’ll never turn back any more;
And join the anthems in the skies,
I’ll never turn back any more.
Any more, any more, any more, my Lord,
I’ll never turn back any more.