Indexes for The Sacred Harp, 2025 Edition

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398 The Dying Boy

Words: Nettie Lynn, 1855

Music: H. S. Rees, 1859

Meter: Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)

I’m dying, Mother, dying now,
Please raise my aching head,
And fan my heated, burning brow;
Your boy will soon be dead.
Turn o’er my pillow once again,
And kiss my fevered cheek;
I’ll soon be freed from all the pain,
For now I am so weak.