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Away Over Jordan/ My Brother's GoingTo Wear That Crown/Starry Crown
Revival hymn; Unknown folk-hymn appears in The Revivalist: a collection of choice revival hymns and tunes," By Joseph Hillman in 1869.
ARTIST: folk-hymn appears in The Revivalist: a collection of choice revival hymns and tunes," By Joseph Hillman in 1869.
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CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel;
DATE: Published 1869;
RECORDING INFO: Away Over Jordan
The Revivalist: a collection of choice revival hymns and tunes," By Joseph Hillman in 1869.
OTHER NAMES: "My Brother's Going to Wear that Crown"
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SOURCES: The Revivalist: A Collection of Choice Revival Hymns and Tunes," By Joseph Hillman in 1869.
NOTES: "Away Over Jordan" an excellent folk-hymn, appears in The Revivalist: a collection of choice revival hymns and tunes," By Joseph Hillman in 1869. A spiritual by the title "Wear A Starry Crown" with similar lyrics appears in Barton's middle Tennessee Collection (1880-1887) p. 16. [see: version 2].
Here's a variant titled "Starry Crown" that appears in the 1880 publication, The Christian Week:
I have been sending what the sick like—namely, flowers and sweet cakes, to her; and we are praying for her at home. I have visited her again to-day. She has still the pleased, happy countenance. She is much spent, but seems very patient, and has no pain. I sang the Starry Crown to her—
I'll soon be away now to wear that crown,
I'll soon be away now to wear that crown,
I'll soon be away now to wear that crown,
To wear that starry crown.
Away over Jordan, with my blessed Jesus,—
Away over Jordan, to wear the starry crown."
She smiled, and said twice, " That's beautiful." I prayed, and then bade her farewell. " Good-bye," I said; " if we do not meet again here, we will meet in glory, through the blood of the Lamb."
"Yes," was her answer, as she was smiling in my face, and holding out her hand, which I grasped perhaps for the last time.
May the Lord soothe and smooth her passage to the grave, for Jesus' sake. Amen. Her hand was warm and thin; her sunken eyes sparkled with more than an earthly light, and the bright, happy smile spoke of a peace which seemed to flow like a river. There was no complaining, but calm contentment to the will of God. "For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's" (Rom. xiv. 8).
I learn that she sat down at the Lord's table for the first time last communion season, so that it will be her first and last communion on earth—the next in heaven. Some time afterwards I called again, and found her still weaker.
The kind doctor was there, but it was little that he could do. After he left I asked her, " Are you still looking forward to the crown?"
"Yes," she answered.
"Are you still resting on the Lord Jesus?" "Yes," she again whispered.
I sang the Starry Crown again, as she seemed to like it the last time so much—
"We will meet in glory, and wear that crown,
We will meet in glory, and wear that crown,
We will meet in glory, and wear that crown,
And wear that starry crown.
Away over Jordan, with my blessed Jesus,
Away over Jordan, and wear that starry crown."
AWAY OVER JORDAN- Folk-hymn from The Revivalist 1869
1. My brother's going to wear that crown,
My brother's going to wear that crown,
My brother's going to wear that crown,
To wear that starry crown.
CHORUS: Away over Jordan,
With my blessed Jesus,
Away over Jor-dan,
To wear that star-ry crown.
2, You must live a-right to wear that crown, &c.
3 John Wesley's gone to wear that crown, &c.
4. My father's gone to wear that crown, &c.
5. My mother's gone to wear that crown, &c.
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