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Thread #115871   Message #2485996
Posted By: Jim Dixon
05-Nov-08 - 05:15 PM
Thread Name: Origins: I Have No Mother Now /Every Bush and Tree
Subject: Lyr Add: I HAVE NO MOTHER NOW (from Sacred Harp)
Here's another set of lyrics, from The Sacred Harp published by Benjamin Franklin White and Elisha J. King in 1844, a.k.a. "The Cooper Book":

I HAVE NO MOTHER NOW 363
Tune: John Wesley Miller, 1909
Meter: 7s,6s Double (7,6,7,6,7,6,7,6)
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1. I hear the soft winds sighing
Among the boughs that wave,
Beneath is mother lying
So quiet in her grave.
Unbidden tears have started,
As by the mound I bow,
I think of when we parted—
I have no mother now.

CHORUS: She's gone from earth to heaven,
She's gone away, I have no mother now.

2. The pale moon shines so faintly,
Yet I in fancy see
Her face, so pure and saintly,
As when she smiled on me.
Although she's safe in glory,
Yet care beclouds my brow,
There's sorrow in my story—
I have no mother now.

3. I feel so very lonely,
The future seems so drear,
My dear Redeemer only
Can make the pathway clear,
Of wounds, past mortal healing,
There's few like this I trow;
This sad, heartbroken feeling—
I have no mother now.