Description
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2 Spirituals (1995)
Duration: 7′
Text and tune: African-American Spirituals: “Deep River” and “Steal Away.”
Commissioned by Karen Clift
Premiere—1995, by Karen Clift and John Churchwell, Minneapolis, MN
Voice range:
Text
Deep river, my home is over Jordan.
Deep river, Lord,
I want to cross over into camp ground.
Oh, don’t you want to go to that gospel feast?
That promised land, where all is peace?
Deep river. . . .
Steal away, steal away, steal away to Jesus.
Steal away, steal away home,
I ain’t got long to stay here.
My Lord calls me, He calls me by the thunder;
The trumpet sounds within-a my soul.
I ain’t got long to stay here.
My Lord calls me, He calls me by the lightning.
The trumpet sounds within-a my soul.
I ain’t got long to stay here.
Steal away. . . .
