Tho’ we are guilty, thou art good,
Wash all our works in Jesus’ blood;
Give every fetter’d soul release
And bid us all depart in peace.
Give every fetter’d soul release
And bid us all depart in peace.
The text is credited to Joseph Hart, tune to Munday, in the Original Sacred Harp. Melodic relationship is to be seen between this and ‘Ye Mariners of England’. See Dolph, Sound Off, p. 228.
No. 53
[STEPHENS], PB 338
Pentatonic, mode 3 (I II III — V VI —)
