BOZRAH

Bozrah is based on Isaiah 63:1, in which Isaiah has a vision of a stranger coming from Edom in blood-red garments. Words by Charles Wesley, tune from William Walker's Southern Harmony #39.

It's Aeolian heptatonic as sung here, which is a Baptist way of singing it. It's sung Dorian in the Sacred Harp tradition. I have heard Methodists sing these words to a completely different tune. The tune also appears in "The Traveler" #108b in Denson and Cooper (with different words). Christian Harmony, NC uses two stanzas from Wesley's poem and adds three more from an Isaac Watts poem. It has made the rounds.

Played on a Ben Seymour Galax dulcimer tuned dddd (D4 D4 D4 D4) with the outermost drone reverse-capoed at the fourth fret to raise it to an A.

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[johnhenry176]

Wish I could make my fingers work thataway ! Still trying

thanks for posting Flinthill

JohnH