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Come, humble sinner in whose breast
A thousand thoughts revolve;
Come with your guilt and fear opprest
And make this last resolve.
I'll go to Jesus though my sin
Hath like a mountain rose.
I know his courts, I'll enter in,
Whatever may oppose.
Prostrate I'll lie before his throne,
And there my guilt confess;
I'll tell him I'm a wretch undone,
Without his sovereign grace.
I'll to the gracious King approach,
Whose sceptre pardon gives;
Perhaps he may command my touch,
And then the suppliant lives.
Of the text which the compiler of the _Southern Harmony_ found in
"Rippon", three further stanzas are found in Caldwell's _Union
Harmony_, p. 35. The tune, ascribed to Robert Boyd, is found also KYH
22, GCM 136, UH 34, KNH 32, HH 71, HOC 24, TZ 101, and GOS 144. A
variant tune is 'Come All Ye Worthy Christian Men', Sharp, _One
Hundred English Folksongs_, No. 91. Note similarity in the opening
words of both songs. See also Sharp's note as to other old related
songs. The first melodic sentence is quite similar to that of the tune
to 'The Three Ravens' as Motherwell gives it in _Minstrelsy Ancient
and Modern_, Edition 1873, Appendix, _Musick_, No. 12:
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No. 96
FRENCH BROAD, SOH 265