Remove this hardness from my heart,
This unbelief remove;
To me the rest of faith impart—
The Sabbath of thy love.
A remarkably close remake of this peculiar song by the negroes is given in Dett, p. 108, under the title ‘Go Down, Moses’, where we see the melodic setting of the above words “To all thy people known” and “For all the people of God” fitted note for note to “Let thy people go”. The tunes of ‘Rejected Lover’, Sharp, ii., 96ff., show similarities.
No. 109
[BOURBON], COH 67
Pentatonic, mode 2 (I — 3 IV V — 7)
’Twas on that dark and doleful night,
When pow’rs of earth and hell arose