Sunday Morning Mountain Gospel Music 21

There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down
Brother Claude Ely, Brother Ely is a native of Pucketts Creek, Virginia (Lee County). This recording was made on WCTW in Whitesburg, Kentucky (Letcher  County) in October 1953.


There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down   There ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down
There ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down
When I hear that trumpet sound
Gonna get up outta the ground
’Cause there ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down

Well go down yonder Gabriel
Put your foot on the land an’ sea
But Gabriel don’t you blow your trumpet
Until you hear from me
Well, a-look way over yonder
See people dressed in white
I know it was God’s people
I seen they’re doin’ right
Well, I look way down the river
And what do you think I seen?
I seen a band of angels
They’s comin’ after me, ’cause
There ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down There ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down
When I hear that trumpet sound
Gonna get up outta the ground
’Cause there ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down
Well, I’m goin’ to the river of Jordan
Bury my knees down in the sand
Gonna holler, “High hosannah!” ’
'Til I reach that promised land
Well, I looked way over yonder
And what do you think I seen?
I seen the band of angels
They’s comin’ after me
Well, meet me, Jesus, meet me
Well, meet me in the middle of the air
And, if them wings should fail me
They won’t be nary another pair, 'cause   There ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down There ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down
When I hear that trumpet sound
Gonna get up outta the ground
’Cause there ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down