Lord, I want to go to heaven fer to stan' my trials, Lord, I want to go to heaven fer to stan' my trials, Yes, I want to go to heaven fer to stan' my trials, _Great Judgment day_. Well, _I'm goin'_ to heaven fer to stan' my trials, An' _I'm goin'_ to heaven fer to stan' my trials, Yes, _I'm goin'_ to heaven fer to stan' my trials, _Great Judgment day_. The darkeys used to sing, "Hail, hail, hail, I'm gwine jine saints above, I'm on my journey home". So, too, in many of their songs the "promise Lan'" was held out as the goal of future happiness. So it is to-day. "On my journey home" and "Goin' to Heaven" represent the common conception. Sister when you pray you mus' pray to de Lord, For I hab some hopes ob glory, _I feel like, I feel like I'm on my journey home, I feel like, I feel like, I'm on my journey home_. _I'll away, I'll away to de promise lan', My Father calls me, I mus' go, To meet Him in de promise lan'._ I have a father in the promise lan', Go meet him in de promise lan', _I feel like, I feel like I'm on my journey home, I feel like, I feel like I'm on my journey home_. So, too, the singer has a _mother_, a _sister_, an _auntie_ and others in the "promise lan'". Likewise he says instead of "sister when you pray," etc., _brother_, _member_, _mourner_, _sinner_, _preacher_, and the others. As a rule morning signified to the negroes the time for going to heaven and for the resurrection. The morning star shining as a witness to his conversion, and the midnight dew typified the early morning time of his religion. "In the morning" is sung as of old. I have been tempted, _O yes_, An' I have been tried, _O yes_, I have been to the river an' been baptize, An' I want to go to heaven in the morning. _Won't you ride on Jesus? Ride on Jesus, ride on crowning King, For I want to go to heaven in the morning._ If you see my mother, _O yes_, Please tell her for me, _O yes_, That the angels in heaven done change my name, An' I want to go to heaven in the morning. So if you see "_brother John, sister Nancy_," and others makes the song complete. The song once so popular, "Yes, I'll be dere, When gen'ral roll call" is still heard occasionally. Many of these songs have been corrupted and changed, consolidated and revised into new songs. Such a song is "Study war no mo'", which combines the old camp meeting, "down by the river side", and a new element of _peace_, the origin of which is not known. Well there's goin' to be a big camp meetin', Well there's goin' to be a big camp meetin', Well there's goin' to be a big camp meetin', Down by the river side. _Well, I ain't goin' to study war no mo', Well, I ain't goin' to study war no mo', Well, I ain't goin' to study war no mo'._ Well such a shoutin' an' prayin' Down by the riverside. Well I goin' to meet my sister, Down by the riverside.