"So Soon in the Morning" is a traditional religious song performed in 1959 by Joan Baez

Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice....

 and Bill Wood on Baez's first album, Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square

Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square

Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square is the first album featuring Joan Baez.Joan Baez recorded this album in a basement together with Bill Wood and Ted Alevizos. Only seven of the eighteen tracks on this album were solos by Baez...

. The duo sung it in a fast gospel

Gospel music

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....

 tempo. The lyrics contain lines from a 19th century religious hymn, "I heard the voice of Jesus say", written in 1846 by Horatius Bonar

Horatius Bonar

Horatius Bonar was a Scottish churchman and poet.-Life:The son of James Bonar, Solicitor of Excise for Scotland, he was born and educated in Edinburgh. He comes from a long line of ministers who have served a total of 364 years in the Church of Scotland...

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I heard the voice of Jesus say, “Come unto Me and rest;
Lay down, thou weary one, lay down Thy head upon My breast.”

as well as a stanza from "Father, I stretch my hands to thee", a hymn by Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley was an English leader of the Methodist movement, son of Anglican clergyman and poet Samuel Wesley, the younger brother of Anglican clergyman John Wesley and Anglican clergyman Samuel Wesley , and father of musician Samuel Wesley, and grandfather of musician Samuel Sebastian Wesley...

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Father, I stretch my hands to thee, no other help I know;
If thou withdraw thyself from me, ah! whither shall I go?

altering the words to

O Lord, I stretch my hand to thee, no other help I know;
If thou withdraw thy hand from me, wherever shall I go?