If You Love God, Serve Him

DESCRIPTION: Chorus: "If you love God, serve Him, Hallelujah! (Praise ye the Lord/Love and serve the Lord)" (2x). "Come, go to glory with me (Praise .../Love ...)"(2x). Verses: The singer was a sinner "on the road to hell" but the Father and Son redeemed his soul.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1874 (Dett/Fenner/Rathbun/Cleveland-ReligiousFolkSongsOfTheNegro-HamptonInstitute)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious Jesus
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Dett/Fenner/Rathbun/Cleveland-ReligiousFolkSongsOfTheNegro-HamptonInstitute, pp. 8-9, "If You Love God, Serve Him (Love an' Serve de Lord)" (1 text, 1 tune; p. 178 in the 1874 edition)
Roud #15262
File: Dett008

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