[Music]
Come, all ye mourning pilgrims dear,
Who're bound for Canaan's land,
Take courage and fight valiantly,
Stand fast with sword in hand.
Our Captain's gone before us,
Our Father's only Son;
Then pilgrims dear, pray do not fear,
But let us follow on.
We have a howling wilderness
To Canaan's happy shore,
A land of dearth and pits and snares,
Where chilling winds do roar.
But Jesus will be with us
And guard us by the way,
Though enemies examine us,
He'll teach us what to say.
Come all you pilgrim travelers,
Fresh courage take with me;
Meantime I'll tell you how I came
This happy land to see:
Through faith, the glorious telescope,
I view'd the worlds above,
And God the Father reconciled,
Which fills my heart with love.
The tune is found also CHI 54, MOH 147, KNH 57, HH 392, SOC 117, and
WP 46. Among the many secular songs using this tune are 'Daniel
Monroe', dating from around 1785, Rickaby, pp. 184 and 229; 'Lady and
the Dragoon', Sharp, i., 337, recorded in North Carolina in 1918;
'Sheffield Apprentice', Sharp, ii., 66; 'Loving Reilly', Sharp, ii.,
81 and 82; 'Rebel Soldier', or 'Poor Stranger' Sharp, ii., 215; 'Sons
of Liberty', Sharp, ii., 225; 'John Barleycorn', noted by Sharp in
England in 1909; 'Gallant Poachers' or 'Van Diemen's Land', also in
England, see JFSS, vii., 42, for references; 'I Wish I Was in Dublin
Town', or 'The Irish Girl', JFSS, viii., 263; and 'Barley and the
Rye', JFSS, viii., 273; 'High Germany' and 'Erin's Lovely Home', _One
Hundred English Folk-Songs_, pp. 124 and 127; 'King's Lynn',
_Christian Science Hymnal_; and 'Rise Up Young William Reilly',
Petrie, No. 510. Stephen Foster's tune 'Way Down in Ca-i-ro' shows
influence from this tune formula. See _The Musical Quarterly_, vol.
xxii., No. 2.
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