“On a train trip from Kansas City to Chicago, Morris exited the train on one of its stops to get some fresh air and heard one of the station porters singing a song.
Horace Boyer cites a story that repudiates this claim, stating: Circumstantial evidence strongly suggested it dated back to southern African-American churches of the nineteenth century, possibly even prior to the Civil War, as some personal African American histories recall 'slaves singing as they worked in the fields a song about walking by the Lord's side.'.
The precise author of ' A Closer Walk' was unknown until recently. The Story Behind Just a Closer Walk with Thee
