Indexes for The Sacred Harp, 1991 Edition

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504 Wood Street

Words: Tate & Brady’s New Version, 1696

Music: Judy Hauff, 1986

Meter: Long Meter (8,8,8,8)

When we our wearied limbs to rest
Sat down by proud Euphrates’ stream:
We wept with doleful thoughts oppressed,
And Zion was our mournful theme.

Our harps that when with joy we sung
Were wont their tuneful parts to bear,
With silent strings neglected hung,
On willow trees that withered there.