No. 156 Cuba or Go Preachers or Poor Mourner’s Found a Home, Osh 401
Hexatonic, mode 3 A (I II III — V VI VII)
Go, preachers, and tell it to the world;
Go, preachers, and tell it to the world;
Go, preachers, and tell it to the world:
Poor mourner’s found a home at last.
Through free grace and a dying Lamb;
Through free grace and a dying Lamb;
Through free grace and a dying Lamb,
Poor mourner’s found a home at last.
This typical spiritual was taken into the 1859 edition of the Sacred Harp. Other stanzas were added by simply substituting in the place of “preachers,” the words “fathers,” “mothers,” etc. A negro version of tune and words is in Slave Songs, No. 24.