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I'm Boun' to Cross the Jordan
From K. P. Lewis, West Durham, 1915, as set down by Dr. Kemp P.
Battle, Chapel Hill, November 1910.
Chorus:
I'm houn' to cross the Jordan,
I'm boun' to cross the Jordan,
I'm boun' to cross the Jordan,
I'm boun' to cross the lordan,
I'm boun' to cross the Jordan,
Hallelujah !
I Oh, brothers, wc^n't you join me?
Sisters, won't you join me?
Sinners, won't you join me ?
For I'm boun' to cross the Jordan,
Hallelujah !
2 Oh, my brothers over Jordan,
]\Iy sisters over Jordan,
]\Iy neighbors over Jordan,
And I'm boun' to cross the Jordan,
Hallelujah !