Sing on, pray on,

Soldiers of the cross.

Subsequent stanzas are constructed from such sentences as:

Religion makes me happy.

King Jesus is my captain.

I long to see my Savior.

Then farewell, sin and sorrow.

We’ll have a shout in glory.

We’ll wave our palms forever.

A variant of tune and words is in Richardson, p. 68. The melody is the same as ‘Bobbing Around’ which was published by Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston, about 1855, as one of a series called Melodies of the day.