Indexes for The Sacred Harp, 2025 Edition

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506 The Ark

Words: Mercer’s Cluster, 1823

Music: J. A. Ayers, 1966

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

Copyright: 1966 Sacred Harp Publishing Company

When Noah with his favored few
Was ordered to embark,
Eight human souls, a little crew,
Entered on board his ark.

[chorus]
Jehovah shut them in,
The waters rage, the billows roar;
The Lord has shut them in,
The waters rage, the billows roar;
Jehovah shut them in.