Wherever my lot is to publish the truth,
I’ll never forget the church of my youth.
The oldest occurrence of the text seems to be in the Hesperian Harp, 1848. This song is a parody (words and music) of ‘In the Days of My Youth’, Beggars Opera, No. 42; Act 3, Scene 1. The tune there was that sung earlier to ‘A Shepherd Kept Sheep’.
No. 46
[REDEMPTION (B)], OSH 501
Hexatonic, mode 2 A (I II 3 IV V — 7)
Come, friends and relations, let’s join hearts and hands;
The voice of the turtle is heard in the land.
Let’s all walk together and follow the sound,
And march to the place where redemption is found.