The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #21554   Message #249252
Posted By: GUEST,Central NY
29-Jun-00 - 12:52 PM
Thread Name: Funeral Tunes, songs that heal
Subject: Lyr Add: Farewell Anthem^^
If we're talking Sacred Harp, I want Funeral Anthem at my service. Wondrous Love for the non-SH singers. And a 2 day singing so they can do all 250 of my favorties :-) Better make that 3 so there's time for my regular hymn favorites as well.

Words for these & the earlier message can be found at the Fasola.org web site http://fasola.org/index/0Index.html

Farewell Anthem:

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 lie down in the cold and silent grave,
Where the mourners cease from mourning and the pris'ner is set free:
Where the rich and poor are both alike.
Fare you well, my friends.