Coming Day, The
Spiritual- Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867

Coming Day, The/The Coming Day

Traditional Spiritual

ARTIST: Spiritual from Negro Spirituals by Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867

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CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel

DATE: 1800s; June 1867

RECORDING INFO: The Coming Day

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Negro Spirituals 1867

OTHER NAMES: "Go to Canaan"

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SOURCES: Negro Spirituals by Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867

NOTES: "The Coming Day" or properly titled "Coming Day, The" is a traditional spiritual found in Negro Spirituals by Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867.  
 
Higginson remarks: "This next was a boat-song, and timed well with the tug of the oar."

COMING DAY/ IX. THE COMING DAY- Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867

I want to go to Cannan,
I want to go to Cannan,
I want to go to Cannan,
       To meet 'em at de comin' day.

O, remember, let me go to Canaan (Thrice.)
       To meet 'em, at de comin' day.

O brudder, let me go to Canaan, (Thrice.)
       To meet 'em, at de comin' day.

My brudder, you -- oh! -- remember (Thrice.)
       To meet 'em, at de comin' day.

       To meet 'em at de comin' day.