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No. 224 I Love Jesus, Rev 254

Hexatonic, mode 3 A (I II III — V VI VII)

Jesus, my all, to heav’n has gone, Glory hallelujah,
He whom I fix my hopes upon, Glory hallelujah.
Chorus
I love Jesus, glory hallelujah,
I love Jesus, glory hallelujah.

Further stanzas of the text are given under ‘River of Jordan’. The tune is found in a negro version in Marsh, No. 65. I have, in manuscript, practically the same tune which I recorded from the dulcimer playing of F. S. Russell, Marion, Virginia. He called the tune ‘Bonaparte’s Retreat’. Compare also the sixteenth century carol tune ‘Tempus adest floridum’, The Oxford Book of Carols, No. 99.

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