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504 Wood Street

Words: Tate and Brady, 1696

Music: Judy Hauff, 1986

Meter: Long Meter (8,8,8,8)

Copyright: 1991 Sacred Harp Publishing Company

When we, our wearied limbs to rest,
Sat down by proud Euphrates’ stream,
We wept with doleful thoughts oppressed,
And Zion was our mournful theme.

Our harps, that when with joy we sung
Were wont their tuneful parts to bear,
With silent strings neglected hung
On willow trees that withered there.