Indexes for The Sacred Harp, 1991 Edition

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29b Tribulation

Words: Isaac Watts, 1709

Music: Patterson’s Church Music, 1813

Meter: Common Meter (8,6,8,6)

Death, ’tis a melancholy day
To those who have no God,
When the poor soul is forced away,
To seek her last abode.

In vain to heav’n she lifts her eyes,
For guilt, a heavy chain,
Still drags her downward from the skies
To darkness, fire, and pain.