[Music]
Go, preachers, and tell it to the world;
Go, preachers, and tell it to the world;
Go, preachers, and tell it to the world:
Poor mourner's found a home at last.
Through free grace and a dying Lamb;
Through free grace and a dying Lamb;
Through free grace and a dying Lamb,
Poor mourner's found a home at last.
This typical spiritual was taken into the 1859 edition of the _Sacred
Harp_. Other stanzas were added by simply substituting in the place of
"preachers," the words "fathers," "mothers," etc. A negro version of
tune and words is in _Slave Songs_, No. 24.
No. 157
SINNERS TURN, OL 266
Heptatonic, essentially aeolian, mode 2 A + b (I II 3 [III] IV V 6
[VI] 7)
[Music]
Sinners, turn, why will ye die?
God, your maker asks you why.
God who did your being give,
Made you with himself to live.
_Chorus_
Oh! turn, sinners, turn!
May the Lord help you turn,
Oh! turn, sinners, turn,
Why will you die?
He the fatal cause demands,
Asks the work of his own hands,
Why, ye thankless creatures, why
Will you cross his love and die?
_Chorus_
Sinners, turn, why will ye die?
God, your Savior, asks you why!
God, who did your souls retrieve,
Died himself that ye might live.
_Chorus_
This tune is closely related to 'Animation' and, like it, to the
worldly tune 'Ropesman' in Thomas, p. 164. The melody of the above
chorus seems to have been derived from 'Willy Taylor', Petrie, No.
745. Compare for similarities 'Run Nigger Run', SS 89.
No. 158
DEATH AIN'T YOU GOT NO SHAME