BOUND TO GO.
"Jordan River, I'm bound to go, Bound to go, bound to go,-- Jordan River, I'm bound to go, And bid 'em fare ye well.
"My Brudder Robert, I'm bound to go, Bound to go," &c.
"My Sister Lucy, I'm bound to go, Bound to go," &c.
Sometimes it was "tink 'em" (think them) "fare ye well." The _ye_ was so detached that I thought at first it was "very" or "vary well." Another picturesque song, which seemed immensely popular, was at first very bewildering to me.

I could not make out the first words of the chorus, and called it the "Roman-dar," being reminded of some Romaic song which I had formerly heard.

That association quite fell in with the Orientalism of the new tent-life.
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ROOM IN THERE.
"O, my mudder is gone! my mudder is gone! My mudder is gone into heaven, my Lord! I can't stay behind! Dere's room in dar, room in dar, Room in dar, in de heaven, my Lord! I can't stay behind! Can't stay behind, my dear, I can't stay behind! "O, my fader is gone!" &c.
"O, de angels are gone!" &c.
"O, I'se been on de road! I'se been on de road! I'se been on de road into heaven, my Lord! I can't stay behind! O, room in dar, room in dar, Room in dar, in de heaven, my Lord! I can't stay behind! By this time every man within hearing, from oldest to youngest, would be wriggling and shuffling, as if through some magic piper's bewitchment; for even those who at first affected contemptuous indifference would be drawn into the vortex erelong.
Next to these in popularity ranked a class of songs belonging emphatically to the Church Militant, and available for camp purposes with very little strain upon their symbolism.

This, for instance, had a true companion-in-arms heartiness about it, not impaired by the feminine invocation at the end.
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