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Text: | Steal Away |
Tune: | STEAL AWAY |
Media: | Audio recording |
Refrain:
Steal away, steal away,
steal away to Jesus!
Steal away, steal away home;
I ain't got long to stay here.
1 My Lord, he calls me;
he calls me by the thunder.
The trumpet sounds within my soul;
I ain't got long to stay here. [Refrain]
2 Green trees are bending;
poor sinners stand a trembling.
The trumpet sounds within my soul;
I ain't got long to stay here. [Refrain]
3 My Lord, he calls me;
he calls me by the lightning.
The trumpet sounds within my soul;
I ain't got long to stay here. [Refrain]
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First Line: | My Lord, he calls me |
Title: | Steal Away |
Refrain First Line: | Steal away, steal, away |
Meter: | 5.7.8.7 with refrain |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2013 |
Scripture: | ; ; ; ; |
Topic: | Christ's Return and Judgment; Commitment; Freedom(1 more...) |
Source: | African American spiritual |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | STEAL AWAY |
Meter: | 5.7.8.7 with refrain |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | African American spiritual |
This spiritual illustrates the double meanings at work in many African American slave songs: it is both a call for a direct encounter with Jesus and a summons to slip away from servitude to freedom. Nat Turner reportedly used this song to call together his followers in 1831.
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Audio recording: | ![]() |