Sacred Harp 260 Farewell Anthem

Recording from the 2009 Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Singing Convention.
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Images from the 1860 edition of the Sacred Harp, available online from the Library of Congress.

From www.FaSoLa.org:

Tune: Jacob French, 1789
Words: Anon.
Meter: Prose

My friends, I am going a long and tedious journey,
Never to return. Fare you well my friends,
And God grant we may meet together in that world above,
Where trouble shall cease and harmony shall abound.

Hark! Hark! my dear friends, for death hath called me,
And I must go, and die down in the cold and silent grave,
Where the mourners cease from mourning and the prisner is set free:
Where the rich and poor are both alike.
Fare you well, my friends.

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