Wake Up- (GA) 1852 Social Harp- McCurry
[No informant named. Single stanza with music from 1855 Social Harp, p. 155 by John G. McCurry of Georgia. This is the first extant printed version in the US.
R. Matteson 2016]
"Wake Up" - from 1855 Social Harp, p. 155 as by John G. McCurry, Georgia, 1852.
Wake up, wake up, ye drowsy sleepers,
O wake, O wake for it's almost day!
How can you lie there and sleep and slumber,
When your true love is going away?