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Almost Over
Traditional Old-Time Spiritual
ARTIST: Slave Songs of the United States- Page 74 William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, Lucy McKim Garrison-1867
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel
DATE: 1867; First Recorded
RECORDING INFO: Almost Over
Rt - Exhilaration
Allen, William Francis, et.al (eds.) / Slave Songs of the United States, Dover, Sof (1995/1867), # 97 [1860s]
OTHER NAMES: "Beautiful Life," "Each Day I'll Do A Golden Deed"
SOURCES: Folk Index; Meade
NOTES: “Almost Over,” a Baptism spiritual, appears in Slave Songs of the United States- Page 74 William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, Lucy McKim Garrison-1867. Jackson remarks that the refrain was sung by white people in Georgia before 1844.
Almost Over- Traditional Spiritual 1867
1. Some seek de Lord and they don’t seek him right
Pray all day and sleep all night;
CHORUS: And I’ll thank God,
almost over, almost over, almost over
(My Lord) And I’ll thank God, almost over.
2. Sister, if your heart is warm,
Snow and ice will do you no harm.
3. I done been down, and I done been tried,
I been through the water and I been baptized.
4. O sister, you must mind how you step on the cross,
Your foot might slip, and your soul get lost.
5. An’ when you get t’ heavn’ you’ll be able for to tell,
How you shunned the gates of hell.
6. Wrestle with Satan and wrestle with sin,
Stepped over hell and come back agin.
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