No. 151 Lost City or to Glory I Will Go, Osh 320
Heptatonic ionian, mode 3 A + b (I II III IV V VI VII)
O when shall I see Jesus
And reign with him above,
And from the flowing fountain
Drink everlasting love,
And to glory I will go,
And to glory I will go, will go, will go,
And to glory I will go.
The words are by John Leland. The old tune seems to have been wedded to the above text by E. L. King, about 1844, according to the Original Sacred Harp. John G. McCurry applied the same tune to a text beginning:
I’d rather live a beggar
While here on earth I stay
and ending with the refrain
And to begging I will go.
See ‘Beggar’ in this collection where there are references to the seventeenth century prototype of the above song. Further stanzas of the above spiritual text are given under ‘Faithful Soldier’.