Glory to Thee My God This Night

DESCRIPTION: The singer wishes to be kept beneath the wings of the King of Kings. He asks forgiveness for the "ills I have done" "for Thy dear son" and hopes to sleep in peace, not fear death, and "rise glorious at the Judgment Day"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (WITrinidadVillage02)
KEYWORDS: death nonballad religious Jesus
FOUND IN: West Indies(Trinidad)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: Ira D. Sankey, _Sacred Songs and Solos: Twelve Hundred Hymns_ (London: Marshall Morgan & Scott Ltd, 1921? ("Digitized by Internet Archive")) #301, ("Glory to Thee my God this night") (1 text)
RECORDINGS:
Henry Williams, Henry Thomas, Margaret Wright, Edna Wright, "On My Own (My Soul Has Found Abiding Rest)" (on WITrinidadVillage02)
NOTES [95 words]: WITrinidadVillage02 liner notes title of "My Soul Has Found Abiding Rest" does not seem connected to this song. "My soul has found abiding rest" is the first line of "Abiding Rest" in Zion's Praises (Lamoni: Herald Publishing House, 1903 ("Digitized by Internet Archive")), #92.
This is a Sankey hymn, and the writers of the WITrinidadVillage02 liner notes characterize this track as "Sankey into Shout." The WITrinidadVillage02 track begins with the last line of the first Sankey verse, continues with the second verse, and then sounds the tune out without words. - BS
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