Christian Victor, The

DESCRIPTION: "Happy the spirit released from its clay; Happy the soul that goes bounding away; Singing, as upward it hastes to the skies, Victory! victory! homeward I rise." The spirit has suffered many travails on earth but is now victorious. Jesus will come (again)
AUTHOR: William Hunter (source: hymnary.org)
EARLIEST DATE: 1850 (The Ohio Harmonist, according to Eddy)
KEYWORDS: religious nonballad
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
MidwestFolklore, Mary O. Eddy, "Twenty Folk Hymns," Volume 3, Number 1 (Spring 1953), p. 41, "The Chrisian Victor P.M." (1 excerpt, 1 tune)
NOTES [51 words]: Hymnary.org says that the usual tune for this is "Triumph" by Abraham D. Merrill, but most of the hymnals which include the text actually use "Triumph" for a different text, "Joyfully, joyfully onward I move." This is in any case not the tune Eddy uses; Merrill's tune is in triple time and Eddy's is in 4/4.
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