“You've Got to Be a Lover of the Lord”

Description

"Oh, you've got to be a lover of the Lord (x3) Or you won't get to heaven when you die."

Notes

The Huggins & Phillips Sacred Harp Singers recording adds a verse of Cowper's "Oh, For a Closer Walk with God" to the song, probably to fill out the time on the record. - PJS

Recordings

  • Huggins & Phillips Sacred Harp Singers, "Lover of the Lord" (Vocalion 5273, rec. 1928; on Babylon)

References

  1. Randolph 654, "You've Got to Be a Lover of the Lord" (1 fragment)
  2. Roud #7577
  3. BI, R654

About

Author: Charles Wesley [and William Cowper]/ music: R. H. Reeves
Earliest date: 1869 (Sacred Harp hymnal)
Keywords: religious
Found in: US(SE,So)