O hallelujah;
He whom I fix my hopes upon,
O hallelujah.
And it won’t be long,
Nor it can’t be long,
O halle, hallelujah,
And it won’t be long till Christ will come,
O hallelujah.
The compiler of the Social Harp, John G. McCurry, claims the song and dates it 1847. We know the words as those of John Cennick. Additional stanzas are given under ‘[River of Jordan]’.