This unaccompanied setting of a fun, fairly familiar spiritual gives opportunity for part-singing without keyboard support - tuning, vowel matching, etc. while singing something based out of America's southern singing tradition.

The text is compatible with classroom or church

TEXT:

By and by I'm gonna lay down my heavy load.

I know my robe's gonna fit me well;

I tried it on at the gates of Hell.

And Hell is deep, filled with dark despair;

Stop, poor sinner, you don't wanna go there!

When I get to Heaven, gonna sing and shout;

There's nobody there gonna keep me out!

Key: Eb - F

75 Measures on 5 pages (with repeated section)

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