Παραδείγματα από το σώμα κειμένου για A Closer Walk
1. They played Just A Closer Walk With Thee and When The Saints – music so uplifting that mourners tapped their feet and some danced.
2. This time, the march stepped off to a slow rendition of Just a Closer Walk With Thee.‘‘ There was a bit of silence.
3. The New Orleans street funeral parade is the citys way of grieving, a wake set to jazz÷ the march to the churchyard to the sombre strains of Just a Closer Walk with Thee, then breaking into the joyful chorus, the living dancing with the dead.
4. New Orleans jazz trumpeter Irvin Mayfield Jr., whose father drowned in the storm, played "Just a Closer Walk with Thee." It is a dirge often heard during the slow procession to the graveyard at a New Orleans jazz funeral, the ceremony that Minyard wants to use to carry the unclaimed from a nondescript downtown warehouse to the dignified memorial grounds.
5. In place of an invocation, jazz historian Michael White played Just a Closer Walk With Thee.‘‘ The song was played in the tradition of a jazz funeral, slow and mournful at first, fast an upbeat to represent rebirth at the end. Life‘s like that,‘‘ Clinton said. It‘s always about new beginnings.