Indexes for The Sacred Harp, 2025 Edition

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429 Red Sands

Words: Charles Wesley, 1747

Music: Barry Parsons, 2018

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

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How happy is the pilgrim’s lot,
How free from ev’ry anxious thought,
From worldly hope and fear!
Confined to neither court nor cell,
His soul disdains on earth to dwell,
He only sojourns here.