While the song is also sung at times with more dialect, it lends itself more readily to the above form. Very much mixed and somewhat similar to those already given is "Bless the Name." I've got to go to judgment, I don't know how soon, _Lord bless the name, Lord bless the name_, I've got to go to judgment to hear my sins, _Lord bless the name, Lord bless the name_. My Jesus fed me when I's hungry, gave me drink when I's dry, _Lord bless the name, Lord bless the name_, My Jesus clothed me when I was naked, _Lord bless the name, Lord bless the name_. In the same song and with the same tune are sung the shorter lines that follow. The chorus is often sung "Lor' bless the name", and is a form of the phrase "Bless the name of the Lord." It is used as a refrain after each line or it may be omitted. Mary wept and Martha mourned, _Lord bless the name, Lord bless the name_, Jesus Chris' laid the corner of stone, _Lord bless the name, Lord bless the name_. Mary wore the golden chain, Every link was in Jesus' name. You may talk about me just as you please, I'll talk about you when I git on my knees. God made man an' man was sure, There was no sin an' his heart was pure. God made Adam an' Adam was first, God made Adam out o' the dust o' the earth. The old slave songs also had other interpretations of man's creation which differ slightly in particular from the last stanza quoted. One form occurs in God made man an' he made him out o' clay, _Settin' on de golden altar_, An' he put him on de earth but he did not stay, _Settin' on de golden altar_. A favorite chorus for the old spiritual was: "_What you gwine do when de lamp burns down?_" So there was also another version of the weeping of Mary and Martha: Mary wept an' Martha cried, To see deir Saviour crucified, Weepin' Mary weep no mo', Jesus say he gone befo'. It proves an interesting task to follow the development and changes in a song that has survived from slavery days. In "Free, free my Lord", one of the verses was quite a puzzle. During the recent summer the following stanza was heard: The moon come down like a piper's stem, The sun 'fuse to shine, An' ev'y star disappear, King Jesus set me free. Inquiry was made in order to see if the words had not been misunderstood. The older negroes gave this version and insisted that it was correct, but none of them could explain what it meant. It was thought that perhaps it was a figure applied to the moon's rays or that the loss of the sun might have meant the peculiar appearance of the moon. Anyway, they maintained, this was the "way we got de song an' guess it must be right." The words of the original song were, The moon run down in purple stream, The sun forbear to shine, An' ev'y star disappear, King Jesus shall be mine, of which there seemed to be several versions. Other verses that are found to-day are: