There's a Meeting Here Tonight

There's a Meeting Here Tonight was a hymnal sung by enslaved Americans to alert other enslaved persons of planned meetings.

"1 Get you ready, there’s a meeting here tonight,

Come along there’s a meeting here tonight,

I know you by your daily walk,

There’s a meeting here tonight.

2 Oh, hallelujah, to the lamb,

There’s a meeting here tonight,

For the Lord is on the given hand,

There’s a meeting here tonight.

3 If ever I reach the mountain top,

I'll praise my Lord and never stop,

Get you ready, there’s a meeting here tonight.

4 Go down to the river when you're dry

And there you'll get your full supply,

Get ready, there’s a meeting here tonight.

5 You may hinder me here,

But you cannot there,

God sits in heaven

And he answers prayer.

There’s a meeting here tonight."