Brother Come to Help You

DESCRIPTION: Response: "Jordan just behind you." Leader lines: "Brother come to help you," "Fight your way and travel through," "Only a step to go," "O me brother fight them," "Fight your way and jump across," "Roll Jordan"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (WITrinidadVillage02)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious
FOUND IN: West Indies(Trinidad)
RECORDINGS:
Michael Williams, "Brother Come to Help You" (on WITrinidadVillage02)
NOTES [104 words]: Donald R. Hill and Lise Winer, liner notes for WITrinidadVillage02: "... identified by one of the singers ... as a Salvation Army song." The one line call, one line response is not a structure I find in Salvation Army Song books (see, for example, William Booth, Salvation Army Songs (London: The Salvation Army Book Department, 1911 ("Digitized by Internet Archive")); Evangeline Booth, The Salvation Army Songs and Music (New York: The Salvation Army Book Department, 1922)). While the themes of fighting and crossing Jordan are there, and in other hymnals, I haven't found any of the lines, except "Roll Jordan." - BS
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