Great Day
SATB divisi choir, unaccompanied
Negro Spiritual
This energetic spiritual arrangement works well for large festival choirs. Full of homophony, call and response between antiphonal sections of the choir, and ostinato!
Great day! Great day, the righteous marching.
Great day. God’s gonna build up Zion’s walls.
Chariot rode on the mountain top,
God’s gonna build up Zion’s walls.
My God spoke and the chariot stopped.
God’s gonna build up Zion’s walls.
This is the day of jubilee.
God’s gonna…
The Lord has set his people free.
God’s gonna…
We want want no cowards in our band.
God’s gonna…
We call for valiant-hearted men.
God’s gonna…
Gonna take my breastplate, sword, and shield.
God’s gonna…
And march out boldly in the field.