Deas was affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church. His works include:
- Songs and Spirituals of Negro Composition, 1928
- As I Walk in Gladness Up the Narrow Way
- Big Business in Glory
- Children of the King Above
- Could I but Make Thee My Defense
- Follow the Cross Where Its Glory Shineth
- Homeward, Now We Turn Our Faces
- Hopeless and Wretched I’ve Joy Divine
- If Christ Should Come to Your Soul Tonight
- I’ll Do Anything for My Blessed King
- I’ve Sailed the Broad Seas of Life for Years
- I Am Living This Moment
- I Am Traveling Up to Glory
- I Am Trusting, Trusting, Trusting in the Lord
- I Drank from a Fountain Not So Long Ago
- Jesus, Keep Me Near the River of Thy Love
- Just a Little While in Singing
- Lord God of Hosts, as Morning Breaks
- Lost in the Crowd on the Dark Downward Road
- My Path Leads Upward to a Home
- Now as Evening Shadows Falling
- O City Fair, Beyond Life’s Sea
- O Jesus, Light of Love
- O Lamb of God Eternal
- On Ye Sable Sons of Allen
- Once I Was Bound in the Jungles of Sin
- Outside Your Heart’s Door Still Waiting
- Simply I Follow On, Trusting My Guide
- Some Day I’ll Rise on Wings of Love
- Tell the Love of Jesus Gladly, Everywhere You Go
- There Are Scenes of Life That Often Bring Me Pleasure
- There Is a Life Beyond This Life
- There Is a Song I Love to Sing, Jesus Is Mine
- Trusting Jesus All Through the Journey
- Walking with Jesus All the Day Long
- Weary, Tired and Lonely, as on You Go
- We Are Happy as We Sing Today
- When Conflicts Press and You Sink ’Neath the Load
- When the Saints All Have Gathered in Glory
- When Your Road Is Long and Dreary
- Shine for Jesus