"The Day Is Past And Gone" (EVENING SHADE) is in the Southern Harmony (CLICK HERE, with music and MIDI). The Sacred Harp version has two stanzas only, but the second one is the "disrobe" stanza. Also in George Pullen Jackson, Spiritual Folk-Songs of Early America (1937; Dover, 1964, no. 55; 3 stanzas, tune: VESPER). Recorded on Songs of the Old Regular Baptists (Smithsonian Folkways SF CD 40106; tune: IDUMEA); and on His Majestie's Clerkes (dir: Paul Hillier), Goostly Psalms: Ango-American Psalmody 1550-1800 (harmonia mundi HMU 907128; tune: EVENING HYMN by Elisha West; with sound clip).

~Masato