I’m working my way through the gathering and sending forth songs from Spirit & Song Vol 1 and on Good Friday I’m up to “Go Tell It on the Mountain”, which I suppose is here as a Christmas recessional. The text by John W Work Jnr is here and the tune is a traditional spiritual.
For some of us, the original lyric is unfamiliar as our first exposure was its use as a civil rights song with the “let my people go” phrase inserted and the verse rewritten using the exodus story. That text is here.