Refrain: When I'm gone, when I'm gone, when I'm gone, gone (when I'm) gone, O mother, don't you weep when I am gone.
1 For I'm goin' to Heaven above, Going to the God I love, O mother, don't you weep when I am gone. [Refrain]
2 O mother, meet me there, mother, meet me in the air, O mother, don't you weep when I am gone. [Refrain]
Folk Songs of the American Negro (No. 1), 1907