If I Can Just Make It In

DESCRIPTION: Chorus: "If I can just make it in, If I can just make it in, I won't mind tribulations, If I can just make it in"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1992 (USPrayingBands01)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious
FOUND IN: US(SE)
RECORDINGS:
Benjamin Beckett leading Antioch African Methodist Episcopal Singing and Praying Band, "If I Can Just Make It In" (on USPrayingBands01)
NOTES [102 words]: The description follows the USPrayingBands01 text. One verse illustrates the form: "I feel my weakness every day, I don't mind if I can just make it in, Weakness tells me I must go away, I don't mind If I can just make it in."
The tripling of beats/minute from beginning to end of the USPrayingBands01 track is characteristic of "Sankey to shout" (The hymn is not from the Sankey hymn books).
According to the liner notes the bands march out of the church: "The march begins with a circular, counterclockwise march in the cross aisle of the church ..." so the similarity to a "ring shout" is not just aural. - BS
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