Press On Your Way You Weary Soul

DESCRIPTION: Response: "Press on the way to Zion." Leader lines: "Press on your way, you weary soul," "I think I heard my leader (teacher, Jesus) say," "Little children don't cry (weep) for me," "Little children pray for me"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (WITrinidadVillage02)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious Jesus
FOUND IN: West Indies(Trinidad)
RECORDINGS:
Emile Paul, Carl Monsegui, Allan Lovelace, "Press On Your Way You Weary Soul" (on WITrinidadVillage02)
NOTES [45 words]: The WITrinidadVillage02 recording features hand-clapping and bell-ringing, an early and current feature of Spiritual Baptist worship (see Eudora Thomas, A History of the Shouter Baptists in Trinidad and Tobago (Tacarigua: Calaloux Publications, 1987), pp. 17, 23). - BS
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