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Thread #37186   Message #518014
Posted By: Burke
30-Jul-01 - 08:11 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Family Bible
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Family Bible
Sorcha, your link was fine, it's Joe's that didn't work. The Southern Harmony site has had trouble with it's images getting corrupted.

Sacred Harp has 2 settings for these words and I think an older edition had 3. There's Family Bible and The Old-Fashioned Bible. According the the online concordance the words are from Young's Christian Companion, 1826.

I know one person who freqently leads The Old-Fashioned Bible. He does it so fast it feels like a Gilbert & Sullivan patter song done fast. I don't know that I've ever sung Family Bible.