Faith in Jesus and repentance
Will secure for them a share.
Hark! I hear my Savior speaking;
’Tis—I know his voice so well,
When I’m gone, O don’t be weeping,
Brother, hear my last farewell.
The song seems to have been inspired by the fate of one of the “forty-niners.” It made its first appearance in fasola circles in the 1859 edition of the Sacred Harp where it is attributed to Ball and Drinkard. For references as to its origin see Hudson, Folksongs of Mississippi, 221.
No. 11
[JOHN ADKINS’ FAREWELL], SOC 200
Hexatonic, mode 3 b (I II III IV V VI —)
