So I might as well stop calling these Tuesday track's chill. Alexisonfire's fourth studio album, Old Crows/Young Cardinals, dropped this past year and among the tracks was this take on a hymn from the 1850s. The story goes that in the 1850s, Reverend Alexander Reid, then superintendent of the Spencer Academy in the old Choctaw Nation, hired some enslaved Africans from the Choctaws for some work around the school. He over heard the two of them, "Uncle Wallace" and "Aunt Minerva" Willis, singing religious songs that they had apparently composed. Among those was Roll Jordan Roll. Reverend Reid furnished them into a gospel-esque group and the rest is history. Though the parallels may not be blatantly clear check it out.
The Northern
He comes, he comes
Judge so severe
Seven trumpets speak
Speak the sound of fear
Oh mother, you oughta be there
I'm gonna go to heaven when i die
(I want to go to heaven)
Roll jordan, roll jordan
Oh father, you oughta be there
I'm gonna go to heaven when i die
(I want to go to heaven)
Roll jordan, roll jordan
Judge so severe
Seven trumpets speak
Speak the sound of fear
Oh mother, you oughta be there
I'm gonna go to heaven when i die
(I want to go to heaven)
Roll jordan, roll jordan
Oh father, you oughta be there
I'm gonna go to heaven when i die
(I want to go to heaven)
Roll jordan, roll jordan
Roll Jordan Roll
Well, roll Jordan, roll (roll Jordan)
Roll Jordan, roll (roll Jordan, roll Jordan)
I want to go to heaven when I die
Roll Jordan, roll
Well my mother, you ought to been there
Mother, you ought to been there
My mother, you ought to been there
Roll, Jordan roll
Roll Jordan, roll (roll Jordan, roll Jordan)
I want to go to heaven when I die
Roll Jordan, roll
Well my mother, you ought to been there
Mother, you ought to been there
My mother, you ought to been there
Roll, Jordan roll
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