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---With John de Re and Kelly Macklin (vocals)

This is another selection from the Shenandoah Harmony. It first appeared in Jeremiah Ingalls’ volume The Christian Harmony, published in Exeter, New Hampshire in 1805. The three-part vocal arrangement is Ingalls’ own. The text is from a 1709 poem by Isaac Watts, “The Friend of Sinners Dies.” Shenandoah Harmony includes the last eight lines of Watts’ longer verse, inspired by Paul’s defiant cry in 1 Corinthians, “Oh death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”

I’m joined again here by John del Re and Kelly Macklin.

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Break off your fears, ye saints, and tell
How high your great deliv’rer reigns.
Sing how he spoil’d the hosts of hell,
And led the monster death in chains!

Say, “Live forever, wondrous king!
Born to redeem, and strong to save!”
Then ask the monster “Where’s they sting?
And where’s thy vic’try, boasting grave?”

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from Old​-​Time Songs, released October 13, 2021

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Old-time American folk songs the old-time way.

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