Snowbound on Hunter Hill farm, Easton Pa.

When, marshaled on the nightly plain,
The glittering hosts bestud the sky,
One star alone of all the train
Can fix the sinner’s wandering eye.

Hark! hark! to God the chorus breaks,
From every host, from every gem;
But one alone the Savior speaks,
It is the Star of Bethlehem.

Once on the raging seas I rode,
The storm was loud, the night was dark,
The ocean yawned, and rudely blowed
The wind that tossed my foundering bark.

Deep horror then my vitals froze,
Death-struck, I ceased the tide to stem;
When suddenly a star arose,
It was the Star of Bethlehem.

It was my guide, my light, my all;
It bade my dark forebodings cease;
And through the storm and danger’s thrall,
It led me to the port of peace.

Now safely, moored, my perils o’er
I’ll sing, first in night’s diadem,
Forever and forevermore,
The star! The Star of Bethlehem!

ShH 332 Bonnie Doon

Snowbound in Easton, Pa.

No sleep nor slumber to his eyes
Good David would afford,
Till he had found below the skies
A dwelling for the Lord.
The Lord in Zion placed his name,
His ark was settled there;
To Zion the whole nation came
To worship thrice a year.
But we have no such lengths to go,
Nor wander far abroad;
Where'er thy saints assemble now,
There is a house for God.

ShH 149 Reflection

Our loving one has gone to rest,
In heaven now she’s ever blest;
In heaven now she waiting stands
To welcome us to that blest land.
O glorious thought, we’ll meet again,
And with the angels we will sing; 
Yes, we will sing.

I can no longer stay with you,
I now must cross o’er Jordan’s shore;
The Savior calls and I must go,
Farewell, farewell to all below.
O glorious thought, we’ll meet again,
And with the angels we will sing; 
Yes, we will sing.

words and music by T.W. Loftin, 1911, from the J.L. White Sacred Harp

ShH 124 Gone To Rest

Singing Millbrook, page 264b of the Shenandoah Harmony, at the Holyoke Range All-Day Singing from The Shenandoah Harmony.  Music by Neely Bruce, words by Charles Wesley.

ShH 264b Millbrook

Holyoke Range All-Day Singing from The Shenandoah Harmony, May 3, 2014. Music from The Southern Harmony, 1854.  Words by W.C. Tillou, by 1830.

ShH 116 Eden Of Love

I Love the Holy Son of God, page 65 of the Shenandoah Harmony, Holyoke Range All-Day Singing, May 3, 2014.

ShH 065b I Love The Holy Son Of God

ShH 260b Bowen

Song by Thomas J. Allen, 1902; words by Nahum Tate, 1700.  This song is on page 98 of the Sacred Harp, Cooper Edition.  We sung it from the Shenandoah Harmony, June 1, 2014 at Cross Keys, Virginia.

ShH 180 Glory Shone Around

O thou that hear'st when sinners cry,
Though all my crimes before thee lie,
Behold them not with angry look,
But blot their mem'ry from thy book.

Create my nature pure within
And form my soul averse to sin;
Let thy good spirit ne'er depart
Nor hide thy presence from my heart.

Anonymous American shape-note hymn, as arranged in William Walker's Southern Harmony (1835) and Christian Harmony (1866).  Words by Isaac Watts, 1719. Sung from the Shenandoah Harmony (2012) in State College, Pa., July 27, 2014.  

Supplication

O Musgrove, he persuaded me,
Persuading me for to agree,
Persuading me, he thus did say,
Let's join and do some forgery.

O now in jail, where I do lay,
In heavy irons, cold as clay,
I soon the day shall shortly see,
That'll land my soul in eternity.

Song from the Social Harp (1855) sung from The Shenandoah Harmony, State College, Pa., July 27, 2014.

ShH 424t Musgrove

Lisbon, by Henry F. Chandler, 1854, from The Social Harp (1855).  Sung at the Lehigh Valley All-Day Shenandoah Harmony Singing 2014.

ShH 053 Lisbon

An arrangement of the folk hymn Sweet Heaven from the Southern Harmony, 1854.  Words by Samuel Crossman, 1664. Sung at the Lehigh Valley All-Day Shenandoah Harmony Singing, December 2014.

ShH 378t Sweet Heaven

Shape note song by Hal Kunkel, 1996.  Words by Robert Robinson, 1758. Sung at the Second Annual Lehigh Valley All-day Singing, December 2014.

Come, Thou Fount of ev’ry blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace.
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.

Chorus:

I will rise and go to Jesus,
He’ll embrace me in His arms;
In the arms of my dear Savior;
Oh there are ten thousand charms.

Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above;
Praise the mount — I’m fixed upon it —
Mount of Thy redeeming love!

Image by Edward Hicks, c. 1826–1830.

ShH 140b Ten Thousand Charms

December 5, 2015, Bethlehem Pa. Third Annual Lehigh Valley All-Day Shenandoah Harmony Singing

ShH 408b Shepherds Arise

ShH 386 Georgia

ShH 132 Star In The East

Amariah Hall, 1793; text by Robert Seagrave, 1742. Sung at the Lehigh Valley All-Day Singing 2017.

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ShH 336 Devotion

The un-greatest hits of the Shenandoah Harmony

House Singing with Fynn 2-27-18

ShH 456 Mortality

ShH 354t Solemnity

ShH 302 Paradise

ShH 084 Lamberton

ShH 346b Sheffield

ShH 42 Blooming Wilderness

ShH 023 Wesley

by Ted Johnson, 2004, from the Shenandoah Harmony

ShH 165 A Doleful Sound

ShH 446t Dunlap's Creek

ShH 134t Pleasant Forest

ShH 432b Columbia

Preview singing from the Shenandoah Harmony, a new four-shape tunebook:  http://www.shenandoahharmony.com

ShH 22b Psalm 30

ShH 305 Tho Dark Be My Way

ShH 424b Walpole

ShH 128 Cross For You and Me

ShH 120t I Walked Abroad (with Tollie Lee)

Ted Stokes transcribed this song from a recording of Hoboken, Ga. singers and wrote an alto part.  It was sung in Hadley Massachusetts from the Shenandoah Harmony, April 14, 2013.

We've no abiding city here,
This may distress the worldling's mind,
But should not cost the saint a tear,
Who hopes a better rest to find.

We've no abiding city here,
Sad truth, were this to be our home,
But let this thought our spirits cheer,
We seek a city yet to come.

But hush, my soul, nor dare repine,
The time my God appoints is best;
While here to do his will be mine,
And his to fix my time to rest.

ShH 326t We've No Abiding City Here

ShH 037 Spiritual Sailor

ShH 162 All is Well

Conflict from John R. Daily's Primitive Baptist tunebook (1911) sung from the Shenandoah Harmony at the first annual all-day singing, Cross Keys, Virginia.

ShH 260t Conflict

Singing James Lowry's song from the Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony (1820), now in the Shenandoah Harmony.  

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