No. 216 Promise or With Us to the End, Soc 73
Hexatonic, mode 3 b (I II III IV V VI —)
Jesus my all to heav’n is gone,
And he’s promis’d to be with us to the end;
He whom I fix my hopes upon,
And he’s promis’d to be with us to the end;
Chorus
Jesus has been with us and he is still with us
And he’s promis’d to be with us to the end.
The text is given more fully under ‘River of Jordan’. The song is ascribed by the compiler of the Social Harp to Henry F. Chandler and dated 1854. The tune has evidently been used for the worldly ballad ‘Cruel Mother’, see Sharp, i., 61. The chorus reappears in the Wesleyan Psalmist (1842) attached to a text which begins:
Children of God, renounce your fears,
Jesus says he will be with us to the end.
Lo, Jesus for your help appears,
Jesus says he will be with us to the end.
Chorus
For he has been with us etc.
This chorus material, words and tune, is used also in ‘He’s Promised to be With You’ in this collection. See for tune relationships also ‘Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard’, Sharp, i., 162.