Lyrics
(African American Spiritual)
1. Keep your lamps trimmed and burning,
keep your lamps trimmed and burning,
keep your lamps trimmed and burning,
the time is drawing nigh.
Refrain
Children, don’t grow weary,
children, don’t grow weary,
children, don’t grow weary,
‘Til your work is done.
2. Christian, journey soon be over,
Christian, journey soon be over,
Christian, journey soon be over,
for the time is drawing nigh. Refrain
See also
- Culture: African American Spirituals
- Form: AB
- Harmony: chords i & V
- Meter: 4
- Scale: natural minor
- Source: Share the Music Grade 6, MacMillan McGraw-Hill, 1995, p. 407
YouTube
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
