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521 Parting Friends

Words: The Southern Harmony, 1835

Music: R. A. Canant, 1959

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

Copyright: 1960 Sacred Harp Publishing Company

Our cheerful voices let us raise
And sing a parting song;
Although I’m with you now, my friends,
I can’t be with you long.
For I must go and leave you all;
It fills my heart with pain;
Although we part, perhaps in tears,
I hope we’ll meet again.