A fearful or a joyful doom?
A curse or blessing meet?
I must from God be driv’n,
Or with my Saviour dwell;
Must come at His command to heav’n,
Or else depart—to hell.
The words are by Charles Wesley. The tune is claimed by Ananias Davisson in his Kentucky Harmony (1815) whence it was borrowed by practically all the subsequent book compilers in the South. The tune was used for the secular ballad ‘Lord Lovel’; see White Spirituals, 177. Also found KYH 33, GCM 36, SOH 31, UH 19, KNH 36, HH 224, SOC 55, HOC 44, TZ 122, MOH 38, Church Harmony, p. 35, GOS 184, PB 246. An imitation of this tune is GOS 325. ‘Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor’, Davis, p. 570, shows the same trend, as does also ‘Young Hunting’, Sharp, i., 112.
No. 138
[BOZRAH], GOS 59
Hexatonic, mode 2 b (I — 3 IV V 6 7)
