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Text:There's a Meeting Here Tonight
Tune:[Camp-meeting down in the wilderness]

91. There's a Meeting Here Tonight

Get you ready, there's a meeting here tonight,
Come along, there's a meeting here tonight;
I know you by your daily walk.
There's a meeting here tonight.

1 Camp-meeting down in the wilderness,
There's a meeting here tonight;
I know it's among the Methodes',
There's a meeting here tonight. [Refrain]

2 My father says it is the bes',
There's a meeting here tonight;
To live an' die a Methodes',
There's a meeting here tonight. [Refrain]

3 There's fire in the eas', there's fire in the wes',
There's a meeting here tonight;
I know it's among the Methodes',
There's a meeting here tonight. [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: Camp-meeting down in the wilderness
Title: There's a Meeting Here Tonight
Refrain First Line: Get you ready, there's a meeting here tonight
Language: English
Publication Date: 1981
Topic: Negro Spirituals and Afro-American Liberation Songs
Source: Traditional
Tune Information
Name: [Camp-meeting down in the wilderness]
Key: D Major
Source: Traditional



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