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Come Friends Go with Me
Public Domain Revival Gospel; The Hesperian Harp, Dr. William Hauser, 1848; Arranged by Wilson Marion Cooper, 1902
ARTIST: from George P. Jackson's Spiritual Folk Songs of Early America;
Sacred Harp Cooper edition; The Hesperian Harp, Dr. William Hauser, 1848
SHEET MUSIC: Cedar Bluff [167] (aka "Come Friends Go With Me") http://www.shapenote.net/berkley/167.jpg
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel
DATE: 1848
RECORDING INFO: Come Friends Go with Me
Jackson, George P.(ed.) / Spiritual Folk Songs of Early America, Dover, Sof (1964/1937), p221/#223 [1911]
Sacred Harp Cooper edition
The Hesperian Harp, Dr. William Hauser, 1848
OTHER NAMES: "Cedar Bluff" "I want my friends to go with me"
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SOURCES: Folk Index; George P. Jackson's Spiritual Folk Songs of Early America; Wolf Collection
NOTES: "Come, Friends, Go With Me" or "Cedar Bluff" is a revival hymn collected from George P. Jackson's Spiritual Folk Songs of Early America. It appears in the Sacred Harp Cooper edition and in The Hesperian Harp, Dr. William Hauser, 1848. The text for the verses are from Watts' "Alas! And Did My Saviour Bleed."
Come, Friends, Go With Me 206 Tune: Arranged by Wilson Marion Cooper, 1902
Lyrics: Isaac Watts, 1707; Meter: Common Meter (8,6,8,6)
Alas! And did my Saviour bleed,
And did my Sov’reign die?
Would He devote that sacred head
For such a worm as I.
Chorus: I want my friends to go with me,
To the New Jerusalem;
I wonder, Lord, shall I ever get to heaven,
The New Jerusalem.
Was it for crimes that I had done,
He groaned upon the tree,
Amazing pity, grace unknown,
And love beyond degree.
(Chorus)
But drops of grief can ne’er repay,
The debt of love I owe,
Here Lord, I give myself to Thee,
‘Tis all that I can do.
(Chorus)
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