[Music]
Dark was the hour, Gethsemane,
When through thy walks was heard
The lowly Man of Galilee,
Still pleading with the Lord.
Down in the garden, hear that mournful sound;
There behold the Saviour weeping,
Praying on the cold damp ground.
Jesus, my Saviour, let me weep with thee;
Mercy, O thou Son of David,
Mercy's coming down to me.
Alone in sorrow see him bow,
As all our griefs he bears;
Not words may tell his anguish now,
But sweat and blood and tears.
Down in the garden _etc._
Four more stanzas of the text are given in the _Revivalist_. The last
part of the tune and the whole text are obvious parodies of the Foster
song 'Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground'. For possible folk sources of
Foster's song, see my article "Stephen Foster's Debt to American
Folk-Song", _The Musical Quarterly_, xxii (1936), No. 2, p. 159.
No. 78
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