The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 86, July 1982 - April, 1983 Page: 46
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
before them, his odd-shaped book in his left hand, his right lifted for
marking time.
"Forty-seven, Sacred Harp," he said and there was a rustle of people
coming closer, followed by silence as the singers, grown-ups and chil-
dren, waited.
Without pitch pipe or tuning fork he sang la and held it a full meas-
ure. With a down beat of his hand he began solfaing the melody, the
others joining in as they found the pitch:
la la sol la fa sol fa la
la sol la mi la sol la
la sol la sol la sol fa la sol la sol
sol la sol la fa sol fa la.
Words came immediately after:
INDUMEA. S. M. Davison Alto by J W. Watson
And am I born to die To lay this bod-y down? And must my trembhng spir- it By In - to a worldun-known I
And am I born to die,
To lay this body down,
And let my spirit take its flight
Into a world unknown,
And let my spirit take its flight
Into a world unknown.*
They were singing from the W. M. Cooper edition of the B. F. White
edition of the original Sacred Harp. Many of the songs had been per-
petuated for a century. So had the instructions on the rudiments of
music that prefaced the original edition. The song that Lemuel Jeffus
selected first appeared on page 428 of the first edition, with a different
tune and the title "World Unknown." The words were by Charles
Wesley; Cooper printed only one of the six stanzas. The illustration
is a facsimile of the song in the Cooper edition. In Texas "Indumea"
is more frequently pronounced "Idamee."
#Reproduced with the permission of Sacred Harp Book Company, Inc., Troy, Ala.
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