Be one among you there.
Then all together we shall meet—
Together we will sing;
Together we will praise our God
And everlasting King.
The tune is one of the comparatively few correct dorian recordings—not minorized—in the fasola song books. The compiler of the Olive Leaf gives the following note below the song: “I learned this air of Rev. Samuel Anthony, of Georgia, more than thirty years ago, Wm. Hauser, M. D., March, 1878.” See Introduction, [p. 14], as to the ‘Babe of Bethlehem’ tune family to which ‘Happy Souls’ belongs. An Irish variant is ‘The Peevish Child’, Petrie, No. 591.
No. 51
[BABE OF BETHLEHEM], SOH 78
Hexatonic, mode 4 a (I II — IV V 6 7)
Ye nations all, on you I call,