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Bahamian Joseph Spence was a master folk artist who developed a totally unique guitar style to express his largely religious repertoire. In 1958 folklorist Sam Charters recorded Joseph Spence's delightful rhytmic guitar improvisations (issued on the Folkways/Smithsonean label and still his best cd) and stirred up a great deal of interest among the folk music enthusiasts the world over.
http://www.folkways.si.edu/joseph-spence/the-complete-folkways-recordings-1958/caribbean-world/music/album/smithsonian
You can also listen to it for free on Spotify.
Spence was an important influence on several mainstream artists like Ry Cooder, Taj Mahal and the Grateful Dead.

I learned the song, which is known under "Happy Meeting In Glory" or "Great Dream Of Heaven", from a Tom Ball recording
http://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Music-Tom-Ball/dp/B000000ZNV/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1402930168&sr=8-2&keywords=tom+ball+guitar+music
You can listen to it for free on Spotify as well.

and an excellent dvd on Spence by Elijah Wald (Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop).
http://www.guitarvideos.com/styles-1/world-music/the-guitar-of-joseph-spence

Here's a longer version I recorded a few years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FNwadeESf0

And Spence's master piece "coming In On A Wing And Prayer"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lkcirca88I

The Lonnie Johnson signature lick lesson with tab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43N5IgWmNfQ

3 pages of Free TAB at my website (scroll down)
https://www.daddystovepipe.com/free-guitar-tablature.php
Tuning is, like all Spence's songs, drop D tuning DADGBE.
I based my playing on the parts of the tab that are marked in yellow; also know that I don't play it exactly as it is tabbed out..

I'm playing a 1925 Gibson L3 archtop