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Thread #85111   Message #1575545
Posted By: Burke
04-Oct-05 - 11:38 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Crambambuli / Krambambuli
Subject: Lyr Add: O COME AWAY (from Sacred Harp)
Here's the music from Sacred Harp

I'm reposting the temperance words since there are 2 more verses in this earlier printing than in the current book.

O COME AWAY!

1. O come, come away,
From labour now reposing,
Our jubilee has set us free,--
O come, come away!
Come, hail the day that celebrates
The ransom of th'inebriates
From all that intoxicates,
O come, come away!

2. We welcome you here!
With heart and hand wide open,
Ye gallant sons of temperance,
We welcome you here!
Heaven's blessings on your plans we pray!
Ye come our sinking friends to save,
And rescue from a drunkard's grave,
We welcome you here!

3. We welcome you here!
Ye who with taste perverted
Have seized the cup, and drank it up,--
We welcome you here!
Come, join us in our holy aim,
The poor besotted to reclaim,
The broken heart to cheer again,--
O come, sign the pledge!

4. We welcome you here!
Ye who your vows have broken,
Falling before the tempter's power,--
We welcome you here!
Ye who have sold yourselves for naught,
Take back the priceless boon you bought,
O take a sober, second thought,
And try, try again!

5. We welcome you here!
Ye maids and matrons lovely,
Whose charms, we yield, must win the field,--
We welcome you here!
Ye who have hearts to feel for wo,
Wide as the streams of sorrow flow.
O frown on the deadly foe,
But smile on the sons!

The Sacred Harp, A Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Odes, and Anthems, Selected from the Most Eminent Authors... New and much improved and enl. ed. Philadelphia : Published by S.C. Collins, for the proprietors, White, Massengale & Co., Hamilton, Ga., 1860.
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