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Are You Ready?/Ride the Chariot
Old-Time Spiritual based Ride The Chariot;
ARTIST: From
http://books.google.com/books?id=tVpU6p02764C&pg=PA46&dq=Ride+The+Chariot+Are+you+ready&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&cd=6
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel
DATE: ; First Recorded
RECORDING INFO: Are You Ready?/Ride Up in the Chariot
Bibb, Leon. Everybody Sing, Vol 3., Riverside RLP 1420, LP (196?), trk# A.04b
Fisk Jubilee Singers. Marsh, J. B. T. / Story of the Jubilee Singers, Houghton Mifflin, Bk (1880), p138/# 14 (Gwine to Ride Up in the Chariot)
Gwine to Ride Up in the Chariot
Us - Ride Up in the Chariot
OTHER NAMES: "Ride Up in the Chariot,"
SOURCES: Folk Index;
NOTES: The spiritual “Are You Ready?”
Here's link to the revival hymn titled Are You Ready? from 1897: http://books.google.com/books?id=e2zXAac0yb8C&pg=PA71&dq=revival+tent+songs&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html
ARE YOU READY FOR THE COMING?
Words: Ada R. Habershon, 1907; Music: Charles H. Gabriel.
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. Matthew 24:42.
REFRAIN: Are you ready (are you ready)? Are you ready (are you ready)?
Are you ready for the opening skies?
Are you ready (are you ready)? Are you ready (are you ready)?
Are you ready for that glad surprise?
1. Are you ready for the coming of the Lord from heav'n?
Are you resting in the promise which to us is giv'n?
Does your heart leap up with rapture as you know He's near?
Or do thoughts of His appearing fill your heart with fear?
2. If He came to call His people would you be dismayed?
Though your sins have been forgiven would you be afraid?
Would you be ashamed to meet Him if He came today?
From the presence of the Master would you shrink away?
3. To this world with all its pleasures are you rooted fast?
Would a call to leave it quickly be a wrench at last?
When He views your finished life work will you suffer loss?
Will you find that you have gathered only worthless dross?
4. Are you busy in His service though your heart is cold?
Are there precious earthly treasures which you fondly hold?
Would He find you doing only what He could approve?
Would He find you watching, waiting for the One you love?
There was the song Are You Ready?, very popular in Negro communities, which
extolled the virtue of heroism (by Negroes) in the war: "When the captain says...
[to Refrain] Are you ready, my brother, Are you ready for the journey? Are you
ready, my sister, Are you ready for the journey? [to Refrain] Do you want to
Are you ready, my sister, Are you ready for the journey? [to Refrain]
Do you want to see your Jesus?
Do you want to see your Jesus?
Ride The Chariot- Arranged by George Pendergrass, Wayburn Dean and Keith Lancaster
Lead: John Green, Wayburn Dean, Robert Guy, George Pendergrass
Chorus:
Ride the chariot in the mornin' Lord
Ride the chariot in the mornin' Lord
I'm getting ready for the judgment day
My Lord, my Lord
Ride the chariot in the mornin' Lord
Ride the chariot in the mornin' Lord
I'm getting ready for the judgment day
My Lord, my Lord
Are you ready my brother (oh yes my Lord)
Are you ready for the journey (oh yes my Lord)
Do you wanna see my Jesus
I'm waiting for the chariot
'Cause I'm ready to go
Chorus
(Are you ready for the mighty journey leaving in the morning?
Are you ready for the master call? Just call me in morning.
Are you ready if you wanna see my Jesus?)
Are you ready my sister
Are you ready for the journey
Do you wanna see my Jesus
I'm waiting for the chariot
'Cause I'm ready to go
I never will forget that day
When all my sins were taken away
My feet were snatched from the miry clay
I'll serve him till that judgment day
Chorus
I'm gonna ride in the chariot
in the chariot, in the chariot
Ride in the chariot
Are you ready my brother
Are you ready for the journey
Do you wanna see my Jesus
I'm waiting for the chariot
'Cause I'm ready to go
Ride in the chariot
Are You Ready? Unknown Detroit Female Group JVB/Gotham c.1950 http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/21843
CHORUS
*Sinner, are you ready?
Oh are you ready?
If, the angels should call
Sinner, are you ready?
Oh are you ready?
Jeus is waiting,
Waiting for all.
*Sung: "Sin" also sung 2nd time: "Ready, are you ready?"
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