Three Spirituals (Andrew Wilshere)

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(Posted 2011-07-14) CPDL #23640:

Editor: Andrew Wilshere (submitted 2011-06-01). Score information: A4, 10 pages, 274 kB Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Three Spirituals
Composer: Andrew Wilshere

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB, and Choral soprano solo
Genre: Sacred, Spiritual

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 2011
Description: In memoriam David Kato

Were you there
Steal away
Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel?

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Original text and translations

English text

1. Original text and translations may be found at Were you there?.

2. Steal away to Jesus.
Steal away home!
I ain’t got long to stay here.
a. My Lord, he calls me by the thunder.
The trumpet sounds within my soul!
I ain’t got long to stay here.

b. Green trees abendin’,
the sinner stands atremblin’.
The trumpet…

c. My Lord, he calls me by the lightnin’.
The trumpet…

3. Didn’t my Lord deliver Daniel?
So why not every man?
He deliver’d Daniel from the lion’s den,
an’ Jonah from the belly of the whale
an’ the Hebrew children from the fiery furnace
an’ why not every man?
I set my foot on the Gospel ship,
the ship it begin to sail,
an’ it landed me over on Canaan’s shore
an’ I won’t come back anymore.