No. 204 Soon We Shall Land or Autauga, Osh 322
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;
Soon we shall land on Canaan’s shore,
Soon we shall land on Canaan’s shore;
Soon we shall land on Canaan’s shore to live forevermore.
The text by John Leland is given more fully under ‘Faithful Soldier’. The tune reappears with unimportant changes as a negro spiritual in Slave Songs, No. 115. The first melodic sentence of the tune is almost identical with the opening of ‘The Winter it is Past’, Petrie, No. 439.