Sacred Harp 192 Schenectady

Recording from the 2009 Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Singing Convention.
www.wmshc.org

Images from the 1860 edition of the Sacred Harp, available online from the Library of Congress.

From www.FaSoLa.org:

Tune: Nehemiah Shumway, 1805
Words: Isaac Watts, 1719
Meter: Long Meter Double (8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)

From all that dwell below the skies,
Let the Creators praise arise;
Let the Redeemers name be sung,
Through evry land, by evry tongue.
Eternal are Thy mercies, Lord,
Eternal truth attends Thy word;
Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore
Till suns shall rise and set no more.

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[91euph]

listen to those altos!!