Steal Away To Jesus.

SOURCE: The Story of the Jubilee Singers
With Their Songs

By J. B. T. Marsh
(Revised Edition. The Riverside Press.
Boston: Houghton,
  Osgood and Company, 1880)

My Lord calls me,
    He calls me by the thunder;
The trumpet sounds it in my soul:
    I hain't got long to stay here.

Chorus:
Steal away, steal away,
Steal away to Jesus!
Steal away, steal away home,
I hain't got long to stay here.

Green trees are bending,
    Poor sinners stand trembling;
The trumpet sounds it in my soul:
    I hain't got long to stay here.

My Lord calls me,
    He calls me by the lightning;
The trumpet sounds it in my soul:
    I hain't got long to stay here.

Tombstones are bursting,
    Poor sinners are trembling;
The trumpet sounds it in my soul:
    I hain't got long to stay here.





ARTISTS:
  Fisk University Jubilee Singers

1ST TENOR: John Wesley Work II;
2ND TENOR: James Andrew Myers;
BARITONE: J. Everett Harris;
BASS: Lemuel L. Foster.

RECORDED:   21 October 1915

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Audio encoding by Michael Tuite
at the Digital Media Lab,
Clemons Library, Univ. of Virginia

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