602. Jesus Christ I Want to Find

602

Jksus Christ I Want to I-'ind

"Negro fragment." Collected by Julian I*, lioyd from Catherine Ben-
nett, a pnpil in the school at Alliance, Pamlico county, c. 1927-28. The
stanza beginning "Tell me whicii way my Redeemer's gone" is not desig-
nated in the MS as a chorus, but since it is regularly repeated, it evi-
dently is. and is designated thus by the editors.

1 Jesus dirist 1 want to tind ;
Pfay tell me where he is.

'Cause him alone can ease m}- mind
And give my conscience peace.

[Chorus: |
Tell me which wa\- my Redeemer's gone,
Tell me which way my Redeemer's gone,
'Cause him alone can ease my mind
And give my conscience peace.

2 If you go down in yonder fold
And search among the sheep,
You will find there, so I was told,
A home he loves to keep.

3 What signs shall 1 tell him hy ?
For many another man
Wears salvation on his brow.
And in his arms a lamb.

4 I thank you for your advice ;
I'll find him if I can ;

And if 1 do I will rejoice
In Christ, a friend to man.