These are the solemn duties of every man and wife.
A variant of the third line of the first stanza, found in SOC 188, reads:
Ten thousand times ten thousand things wheel-ed all around.
The tune is especially announced in the Sacred Harp as “original” and by Elder E. Dumas, a Primitive Baptist. And it is dated 1869. An older tune to the same text is given in this collection as ‘[Wedlock (A)]’. See also ‘Wedlock’, Sharp, ii., 272. ‘The Banks of Newfoundland’, a capstan shanty, is essentially the same tune. See JFSS, v., 300.
No. 44
[LEP’ROUS JEW], SWP 43
Heptatonic aeolian, mode 2 A + b (I II 3 IV V 6 7)
Behold the lep’rous Jew, Oppress’d with pain and grief,
Pouring his tears at Jesus’ feet, For pity and relief,
For pity and relief.