No. 237 Derrett or It Won’t Be Long, Soc 108
Hexatonic, mode 4 a (I II — IV V 6 7)
Jesus, my all, to heav’n is gone,
O hallelujah;
He whom I fix my hopes upon,
O hallelujah.
And it won’t be long,
Nor it can’t be long,
O halle, hallelujah,
And it won’t be long till Christ will come,
O hallelujah.
The compiler of the Social Harp, John G. McCurry, claims the song and dates it 1847. We know the words as those of John Cennick. Additional stanzas are given under ‘River of Jordan’.