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"I'M GOING THERE." Words by Geo. R. Sims; Music by Ivan Caryll. London: Hopwood & Crew, c. 1875. From Uncle Tom's Cabin, Musical Tableaux Vivants, Performed by the Moore & Burgess Minstrels.  Clifton Waller Barrett Collection University of Virginia |
UNCLE TOM. Had I but wings I'd fly away, Where sorrows come no more, Where angels wait in bright array, On Canaan's happy shore. EVA. I'm going there, I'm going there. UNCLE TOM. Where angels in bright array, On Canaan's happy shore. SOPRANO. TENOR. BASS. There's a whisper of far off voices, There's a music the silence brings, 'Tis a message from Golden City That is borne on angels' wings. Hush! Listen! 'Tis the music from Golden City, That is borne on angels' wings, That is borne on angels' wings! UNCLE TOM. Had I but wings I'd fly afar, To where the weary rest; I know I'd find the gates ajar Of Zion's city blest. EVA. I'm going there, I'm going there. UNCLE TOM. I know I'd find the gates ajar Of Zion's city blest. SOPRANO. TENOR. BASS. There's a whisper of far off voices, There's a music the silence brings, 'Tis a message from Golden City That is borne on angels' wings. Hush! Listen! 'Tis the music from Golden City That is borne on angels' wings, That is borne on angels' wings! |
