Sweet Music

DESCRIPTION: Chorus: "Don't you love God? Glory, hallelujah." Verses include: "Sweet music in heaven Just beginning for to roll," "Late I heard my soldier say, Come, heavy soul, I am the way," "I'll go and tell the sinners 'round What kind of Saviour I have found"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1864 (Higginson-ArmyLifeInABlackRegiment)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious Jesus
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Higginson-ArmyLifeInABlackRegiment 31, pp. 215-216, "Sweet Music" (1 text)
NOTES [39 words]: The description is based on Higginson-ArmyLifeInABlackRegiment.
Higginson-ArmyLifeInABlackRegiment: "In the second verse ... 'Saviour' evidently has become 'soldier.'" The singers in Higginson are Union soldiers in the Civil War. - BS
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