And his proud face frowned as he scornfully said:
“No room, no bread for the poor”.
The morning dawned, and the orphan girl
Still lay at the rich man’s door;
But her soul had fled to a home above,
Where there’s room and bread for the poor.
The Cooper edition of the Sacred Harp gives the note: “Music by Eld. C. G. Keith, Nov. 1, 1906.” See Henry, JAFL, vl., 66f, for further references as to its occurrence. The tune is a derivative of ‘The Braes o’ Balquidder’. See ‘[Lone Pilgrim]’ for references to related tunes in this collection.
No. 20
[PARALYTIC], REV 4
Heptatonic aeolian; mode 4 a + b (I II 3 IV V 6 7)
