Give me that old time religion

Give me that old time religion. African American spiritual*.  The pre-publication origins of this spiritual, sometimes referred to as ‘Old Time Religion’, are unknown, though hymnals usually identify it as an African American spiritual. The earliest print version, linked to the Fisk Jubilee Singers*, appears in Gustavus D. Pike’s The Jubilee Singers and their campaign for twenty thousand dollars (Boston, 1873) and J.B.T. Marsh’s The Story of the Jubilee Singers with their songs (Boston, 1880). The song, entitled ‘This Old Time Religion’, contains four stanzas:  1. It is good for the mourner . . . It is good enough for me. 2. It will carry you home to heaven . . . It is good enough for...