Indexes for The Sacred Harp, 2025 Edition

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439 Jordan

Words: Samuel Stennett, 1787

Music: A. M. Cagle, 1908

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

On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand,
And cast a wishful eye
To Canaan’s fair and happy land
Where my possessions lie.
Oh, the transporting, rapt’rous scene
That rises to my sight!
Sweet fields arrayed in living green,
And rivers of delight.