Who’re waiting to confound you.
Credited in the Social Harp to E. R. White and dated 1855. The tune is a clear adaptation of ‘The Girl I Left Behind Me’.
No. 84
[ROYAL PROCLAMATION], SOH 146
Hexatonic, mode 3 A (I II III — V VI VII)
Hear the royal proclamation,
The glad tidings of salvation,
Publishing to every creature,
To the ruin’d sons of nature.
Jesus reigns, he reigns victorious,