In the Morning Don't You Hear the Trumpet Sound

DESCRIPTION: Chorus: ("In the morning"(2x) "Children? Yes my Lord? Don't you hear the trumpet sound" Verses are floating couplets with "Don't you hear the trumpet sound?" as tag. See notes for some floaters.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1864 (Higginson-ArmyLifeInABlackRegiment)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious floatingverses
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Higginson-ArmyLifeInABlackRegiment 26, p. 213, "In the Morning" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Jerusalem Morning" (theme) and references there
NOTES [114 words]: The description is based on Higginson-ArmyLifeInABlackRegiment. Higginson's floaters include "If I had died when I was young I never would had the race to run" and "A silver spade to dig my grave And a golden chain to let me down."
For a similar hymn see John Wesley Work, Folk Song of the American Negro (Nashville: Fisk University, 1915 ("Digitized by the Internet Archive")), pp. 60-61, "You May Bury Me In the East." The chorus is "In that morning How I long to go For to hear the trumpet sound In that morning" Verses are couplets -- like "In that dreadful judgment day We'll take wings and fly away" -- followed by the tag "For to hear the trumpet sound In that morning." - BS
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