76t Doomsday
October 31, 2015 9:35 PM
Zombie Hymn. Tune arranged from Abraham Wood, 1789; words by Joseph Hart, 1762.
Behold with awful pomp
The judge prepares to come
The archangel sounds the dreadful trump
And wakes the general doom.
Nature in wild amaze
Her dissolution mourns
Blushes of blood the moon deface
The sun to darkness turns.
The living look with dread
The frighted dead arise
Start from the monumental bed
And lift their ghastly eyes
Found this tune in The Shenandoah Harmony, a shape note book that's a sort of heir to the Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony published by Ananias Davisson in 1825.
It sounds more impressive when we sing it.
Behold with awful pomp
The judge prepares to come
The archangel sounds the dreadful trump
And wakes the general doom.
Nature in wild amaze
Her dissolution mourns
Blushes of blood the moon deface
The sun to darkness turns.
The living look with dread
The frighted dead arise
Start from the monumental bed
And lift their ghastly eyes
Found this tune in The Shenandoah Harmony, a shape note book that's a sort of heir to the Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony published by Ananias Davisson in 1825.
It sounds more impressive when we sing it.
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That was lovely.
posted by remlapm at 7:43 AM on November 2, 2015