66-Every Time I Feel The Spirit
66-Every Time I Feel The Spirit
66-Every Time I Feel The Spirit
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1 Up - on the moun - tain, when my Lord spoke, out of God’s
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2 Jor - dan Riv - er, chil - ly and cold, it chills the
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mouth came fire and smoke. Looked all a - round me, it looked so
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bod - y but not the soul. There is but one train up - on this
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fine, till I asked my Lord if all was mine.
track. It runs to heav - en and then right back.
Like many African American spirituals, this one mixes the language of biblical narrative with veiled but
effective allusions to the hope of escape from slavery, either by crossing rivers into free states or by
participating in organized efforts like the Underground Railroad.
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TEXT: African American spiritual PENTECOST
MUSIC: African American spiritual; arr. Joseph T. Jones, 20th cent.; adapt. Melva Wilson Costen, 1989 Irregular
Music Adapt. © 1990 Melva Wilson Costen