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Lyrics and Information

Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning

Words: African American Spiritual
Tune: KEEP YOUR LAMPS, African American Spiritual
Key signature: A flat major (4 flats)
Time signature: 2/4
Meter: 7.7.7.7. with Refrain
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1. Keep your lamps trimmed and burning; keep your lamps trimmed and burning; keep your lamps trimmed and burning, for the time is drawing nigh.
Refrain: Sisters, don’t grow weary; brothers, don’t grow weary; children, don’t grow weary, for the time is drawing nigh.
2. It’s our faith makes us happy; it’s our faith makes us happy; it’s our faith makes us happy, for the time is drawing nigh.
3. We are climbing jacobs ladder; we are climbing jacobs ladder; we are climbing jacobs ladder, for the time is drawing nigh.
4. Every round goes higher, higher; every round goes higher, higher; every round goes higher, higher, for the time is drawing nigh.