18a PARTING FRIENDS folk hymn (MG, SH, DA)
Text: Unknown
Tune: Unknown. A variant of this tune first appears as FULFILMENT, arr. by E.J. King, in the Sacred Harp, 1844. It first appears with this text in John G. McCurry's Social Harp, 1855, with the note: "the author, when eight years old, learned the air of this tune from Mrs. Catharine Penn"
Arrangement: Marsha Genensky

Farewell my friends, I'm bound for Canaan,
I'm trav'ling through the wilderness;
Your company has been delightful,
You who doth leave my mind distressed.

I go away, behind to leave you;
Perhaps never to meet again,
But if we never have the pleasure,
I hope we'll meet on Canaan's land.