No. 168 Sweet Morning, Osh 421
Hexatonic, mode 2 A (I II 3 IV V — 7)
The happy day will soon appear,
And we’ll all shout together in that morning;
When Gabriel’s trumpet you shall hear,
And we’ll all shout together in that morning.
Sweet morning, sweet morning,
And we’ll all shout together in that morning.
Behold the righteous marching home,
And we’ll all etc.
And all the angels bid them come,
And we’ll all etc.
Found also in GOS 254. How the post-Civil War negroes sang this song to pieces and then patched it together with fragments of ‘Exhilaration’, another song in this collection, is made clear by reference to Slave Songs, p. 74, No. 97. The tune of ‘Trooper and the Maid’, Sharp, i., 305, is the same as that of ‘Sweet Morning’.