As Moses has related,
Before a bride was made.
Ten thousand times ten thousand
Things wheeled all around,
Before a bride was formed,
Or yet a mate was found.
Another tune and additional stanzas of the text are given in this collection under the title ‘[Wedlock (B)]’. The song is attributed, in the Social Harp, to Henry F. Chandler and is dated 1854. The tunes of ‘Johnny German’, Sharp, ii., 256; ‘I Rode My Little Horse’, Baring-Gould, Songs of the West, No. 101; ‘The Auld House’, Lyric Gems of Scotland, 49; and ‘Joe Bowers’, are similar to the above air. Another ballad in this collection using this tune in variant form is ‘[Little Family]’. Stephen Foster’s song ‘Virginia Belle’ leans melodically on ‘[Wedlock (A)]’. (See my article in The Musical Quarterly, xxii., No. 2.)
No. 14
[PATTON], OL 40
Hexatonic, mode 3 A (I II III — V VI VII)
