766. There's a Place Prepared
[This is the familiar "Just Over in the Gloryland" by James Acuff and Emmet Dean- 1906. I've performed this many times with my group, Bluegrass Messengers. It's also in my book, Bluegrass Picker's Tunebook p. 141.]
'There's a Place Prepared' Sung by E. C. Lovell, Trinity College, Durham, December 5, 1919. MS score and record. (Negro fragment) For a related text cf. ANFS 121.
F-665
There's a place pre-pared by my Sav - iour's side Jus'
o - ver in the glo - ry land. There's a place pre -
pared for the Sane - ti - fied Jus' over in the glo - ry
land. Jus' o - ver in the gloryland.
jine the hap - py an - gel
Just o - ver in the band Jus' gloryland.
There's a place pre - pared by my Sav - iour's side
Jus' o - ver in the glo - ry land.
Scale: Hexachordal, plagal. Tonal Center: a. Structure: aaba (4,4,6,4) = Reprisenbar.