“On My Journey (II)”

Description

Song of religious ecstasy. "On my journey now, Mount Zion/Well I wouldn't take nothing, Mount Zion/For my journey now." Singer is walking along, the "elements opened and the love come down"; he goes to the valley; "my soul got happy/And I stayed all day."

Notes

Just enough of a narrative that I didn't use "nonballad." - PJS

Cross references

• cf. "Jesus Says 'You Goes and I Goes Wid You'" or "Jesus Says Go" (floating verse)
• cf. "Hold the Wind" (floating verse)

Recordings

• Paul Robeson, "On Ma Journey" (Victor 20013, 1926; Victor 25547, 1937)