Was about Jerusalem,
The saints’ delightful home.
The song is ascribed in the Social Harp to John G. McCurry and Wm. C. Davis and dated 1853. For a variant among the negro spiritual tunes see White Spirituals, p. 261. Compare ‘[I’m a Long Time Traveling]’ in this collection. Similarity is seen also between the above melody and ‘The Merchant’s Daughter’, second tune, JFSS, i., 160.
No. 235
[ON THE OTHER SIDE OF JORDAN], REV 465
Hexatonic, mode 2 A (I II 3 IV V — 7)
On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand,
And cast a wishful eye,
On the other side of Jordan, hallelujah!
To Canaan’s fair and happy land,