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My Mother’s Gone 519

Tune: Judge Jackson, 1927
Lyrics: Judge Jackson, 1904
Meter: Irregular
I have a father way in glory,
One by one we'll gather home.

Chorus:

Gathering, gathering,
One by one we'll gather home.

I have a mother way in glory,
One by one we'll gather home.

(Chorus)

I have a brother way in glory,
One by one we'll gather home.

(Chorus)

I have a sister way in glory,
One by one we'll gather home.

(Chorus)

When Christ will say, “Well done,” my brother,
One by one we'll gather home.

(Chorus)
Judge Jackson (1883-1958) wrote the poem on December 26, 1904, and composed the music on August 26, 1927. He was living then in Ozark, Alabama.