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,