Rise Up Shepherd and Follow

A working songbook entry preserved from repertoire, set-list, or reference evidence.

Status: unknown
Writer / source: African American spiritual / traditional Christmas spiritual
Rights: Public domain in the United States. Traditional arrangement by The Scrips.
Related Scrips recording: No Scrips recording linked yet.

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Documented lineage

Earliest evidence: Collected/published in late nineteenth or early twentieth-century spiritual collections
Aliases / index: Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow
Working arrangement: Arrangement details not yet documented.

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Rise Up Shepherd and Follow
African American spiritual / traditional Christmas spiritual
Rights: public-domain-us

Verse 1:
Chords: G, C, D
There's a star in the East on Christmas morn,Rise up, shepherd, and follow.It will lead to the place where the Christ was born,Rise up, shepherd, and follow.
Leave your sheep and leave your lambs
Rise up shepherds and follow
Leave your ewes and leave your rams
Rise up Shepherds and Follow
Refrain
Follow, follow, rise up, shepherd, and follow.
Follow the Star of Bethlehem,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.
Break-Chorus
Break-Verse
If you take good heed to the angel’s words,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.
You’ll forget your flocks, you’ll forget your herds,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.
Leave your sheep and leave your lambs
Rise up shepherds and follow
Leave your ewes and leave your rams
Rise up Shepherds and Follow
Follow, follow, rise up, shepherd, and follow.
Follow the Star of Bethlehem,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.
Follow, follow, rise up, shepherd, and follow.
Follow the Star of Bethlehem,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.

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