The sole occurrence of ‘The Babe of Bethlehem’, a carol, is in The Southern Harmony, 1835. William (Singin’ Billy) Walker recorded it evidently from oral tradition and added a treble and a bass part, in the four-shape notation.
The ‘Morning Trumpet’ is a spiritual song in the unique seven-shape notation of The Harp of Columbia, 1855.
No. 1
[ROMISH LADY], HH 257
Pentatonic, mode 3 (I II III — V VI —)
There was a Romish lady, Brought up in popery,
Her mother always taught her, The priest she must obey.
“O pardon me, dear mother, I humbly pray thee now,
But unto these false idols I can no longer bow.”