Deep River

Deep river, my home is over Jordan,
Deep river, Lord, I want to cross over into campground.
Oh, don’t you want to go to that gospel feast,
That promised land where all is peace?
Oh don’t you want to go to that promised land,
That land where all is peace?
Deep river, my home is over Jordan,
Deep river, Lord, I want to cross over into campground.

Author: Unknown

This is an anonymous African American spiritual from the 19th century. No individual author is documented; it emerged from the oral tradition of enslaved people in the American South.