No. 153 I Can’t Stay Away, Csh 95
Heptatonic aeolian, mode 2 A + b (I II 3 IV V 6 7)
Farewell, vain world, I’m going home,
I can’t stay away,
My Savior smiles and bids me come,
I can’t stay away.
I can not stay much longer here,
I can’t stay away,
For the gospel ship is passing by,
I can’t stay away.
Further stanzas of the text are given under ‘Golden Harp’. Compare, for melodic similarities ‘Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard’, Sharp, i., 161, 162, 164, 168, and 170.