Indexes for The Sacred Harp, 2025 Edition

would 70 occurrences, 56 verses, 46 songs

A palace a toy would appear

127 Green Fields

All but an adamant would melt

93 Frozen Heart

And I’d praise God in His bright abode.

106 Ecstasy

And prisons would palaces prove

127 Green Fields

Fain would my eyes my Savior see

280 Westford

Fearless I’d launch away.

128 The Promised Land

He asked if I for him would die:

164 Duane Street

His faithful foll’wer I would be

334 Bainbridge Island

How would I choose to dwell

357 Kedar

How would I vent my sighs!

214 Repentance

How would it cheer my drooping mind!

62 Parting Hand

I fain would strive for more

287 Cambridge

I’d cross o’er Jordan’s stormy waves

61 Sweet Rivers

I’d fly

455 Soar Away

I’d fly, and fly

455 Soar Away

I’d fly, fly, fly

455 Soar Away

I’d rise superior to my pain

61 Sweet Rivers

I would see Jesus when the flow’rs

75 I Would See Jesus

I’d soar and touch the heav’nly strings

396 Notes Almost Divine

I’d soar away above the sky

455 Soar Away

I would survey life’s narrow space

563 Suffield

I would, Thou know’st, I would be whole

484t Millbrook

I’d to those rivers fly.

61 Sweet Rivers

If Jesus would dwell with me there.

127 Green Fields

If she would gain this heav’nly land.

38b Windham

In all my afflictions to Thee would I come

119 Heaven’s My Home

Lord, I would be as Thou art

571 Hamrick

Lord, I would place my hand in Thine

334 Bainbridge Island

Many souls who thought they’d light

495 The Midnight Cry

My summer would last all the year.

127 Green Fields

My willing soul would stay

467 Lisbon

Nor would they dare His will refuse.

81b Windlesham

O had I wings, I would fly away and be at rest

106 Ecstasy

Oh, if my Lord would come and meet

30b Prospect

111b To Die No More

275b Roll On

380 Lawrenceburg

444 All Saints New

Oh, then, who would not climb such a ladder as this?

551 Jacob’s Vision

She said she’d meet me when I come

457 Wayfaring Stranger

Still would my spirit rest on Thee

39b Sharpsburg

Strict justice would approve

357 Kedar

Sure I must fight if I would reign

57 Christian Soldier

309 Living Lamb

Then, Father, would I turn from all

75 I Would See Jesus

They’d gain true happiness.

98 Dull Care

They would not with the world exchange.

81b Windlesham

To Thee my thoughts would soar

143 Pleyel’s Hymn Second

Vainly with gold would His favor secure

51 Star in the East

When the world and flesh would rise

326 Weary Pilgrim

Would banish all our fears.

420b Bishop

’Twould dry our briny tears

420b Bishop

Would He devote His sacred head

290 Victoria

Would He devote that sacred head

310 Weeping Savior

375 Love the Lord

Would here no longer stay

128 The Promised Land

Would kindle darkness into day.

566 Gum Pond

Would light on some sweet promise there

73t Cusseta

Would make any change in my mind.

127 Green Fields

Would reap where they have strown.

573 Harpeth Valley

Would to God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

268 David’s Lamentation

Yet I would stay my Father’s time

520 Ata