Indexes for The Sacred Harp, 1991 Edition

Statistics

The 553 songs in The Sacred Harp contain 5,752 distinct lines of poetry and 3,538 distinct words. All words have entries in this online index.

In The Sacred Harp Concordance, 3,460 words have printed entries, while these 78 are omitted:

a, all, am, an, and, are, as, at, be, but, by, can, do, for, from, go, have, he, her, here, him, his, how, I, if, in, is, it, its, let, may, me, my, no, not, now, of, Oh, on, or, our, out, shall, she, should, so, such, than, that, the, their, them, then, there, they, thine, this, those, thy, to, too, unto, up, upon, us, was, we, what, when, where, which, while, who, will, with, would, you, your

Word Frequencies

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Entry                     Overall Frequency Distinct Verses Distinct Songs
the * 1978 1506 487
and * 1751 1358 505
to * 1094 871 423
my * 986 748 308
I * 982 772 277
of * 815 675 383
in * 562 464 322
his * 466 380 225
a * 461 365 270
is * 399 324 220
all * 389 304 236
with * 370 319 238
thy * 358 310 158
me * 348 287 174
will * 344 281 191
on * 342 264 216
that * 333 284 208
we * 325 256 144
Oh * 307 219 191
he * 295 237 137
for * 292 248 189
shall * 279 233 170
be * 247 202 164
our * 240 216 127
from * 235 197 165
when * 221 177 150
you * 217 176 98
are * 189 166 143
am * 187 136 95
there * 174 132 113
your * 165 128 73
no * 161 127 111
but * 159 140 121
where * 157 126 104
let * 149 124 104
this * 141 111 99
not * 140 117 99
as * 138 107 96
have * 136 117 96
us * 130 113 80
by * 126 102 95
him * 122 102 75
it * 121 105 80
at * 118 90 93
how * 113 90 77
who * 113 93 87
their * 111 95 71
then * 106 85 79
now * 101 90 74
may * 97 86 77
was * 96 89 48
can * 93 76 69
go * 91 75 69
while * 90 80 81
or * 89 67 65
they * 89 81 58
what * 88 72 66
so * 82 71 61
here * 81 58 62
if * 68 59 57
them * 61 53 37
her * 59 47 25
would * 56 47 43
do * 48 43 43
up * 45 38 39
which * 42 38 39
should * 36 27 32
an * 34 30 29
she * 33 25 17
upon * 32 26 30
those * 30 23 29
thine * 29 24 27
its * 27 23 19
such * 27 23 21
than * 27 20 22
unto * 24 24 22
out * 21 17 20
too * 14 14 14