No. 175 There Will Be Mourning or Judgment Scenes, Ol 337
Hexatonic, mode 3 b (I II III IV V VI —)
Judgment day is rolling on,
Judgment day is rolling on,
Judgment day is rolling on
As fast as time can move.
Oh, there will be mourning,
Mourning, mourning, mourning,
Oh, there will be mourning
At the judgment seat of Christ.
Wives and husbands there shall part, etc.
Shall part to meet no more.
Chorus
Brothers and sisters there shall part, etc.
Pastors and people there shall part, etc.
Parents and children there shall part, etc.
This old air and its words portray, as the Olive Leaf author declares, “the gloomy side” of the Last Day. But, he adds consolingly, “Now sing the joyous side, with every verse,” thus:
The judgment day is rolling on, etc.
And we shall all be there.
Oh, there will be shouting
Shouting, shouting, shouting,
Oh, there will be shouting
At the judgment seat of Christ.
Wives and husbands then shall meet, etc.
Shall meet to part no more.
Chorus
and so on also for the “parents and children,” and the rest. ‘Parting Hymn’, in this collection, uses a similar chorus but has a different verse and tune. A negro version is in Slave Songs, p. 52.