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 |
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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 |