On My Journey

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I am traveling up to glory

Author: Edward C. Deas
Tune: [I am traveling up to glory]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 I am trav’ling up to glory,
On my journey home,
On my journey home;
Where I’ll sing Redemption’s story;
I’m on my journey home.

Refrain:
So I go singing, praying,
Watching and meditating on the life to come;
I am living here, but I’m not of this world,
I’m on my journey home.

2 I can see the friends gone before me,
On my journey home,
On my journey home;
Angel bands are hovering o’er me,
I’m on my journey home. [Refrain]

3 I am leaving sorrows behind me,
On my journey home,
On my journey home;
Nevermore can Satan confine me,
I’m on my journey home. [Refrain]

4 I can feel my burdens grow lighter,
On my journey home,
On my journey home;
On before, the pathway grows brighter
I’m on my journey home. [Refrain]

Source: Songs of Summerland #184

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Author: Edward C. Deas

Edward C. Deas (unknown – 1944) was a hymnist, arranger of spirituals, music publisher, and music authority for the AME Church. Deas’s hymns, such as “Big Business in Glory” (1921) and “Shine for Jesus” (1925), reflect the simplicity and usage of common language characteristic of the 19th-century revival hymn. Deas also wrote the book Songs and Spirituals of Negro Composition (1928). --Encyclopedia of African American Music, Volume 3, edited by Emmett George Price Go to person page >

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First Line:	I am traveling up to glory
Title:	On My Journey
Author:	Edward C. Deas
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	So I go singing, praying, watching
Copyright:	Public Domain