Tune: MOURNER (Carrell)

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MOURNER (Carrell)

Composer: James P. Carrell
Published in 1 hymnal

Composer: James P. Carrell

James P. Carrell was a "farmer, Methodist minister, and county clerk in Lebanon, Russell County, Virginia. He was author of the Songs of Zion (1821) and co-author of Virginia Harmony (1831)" (Steel and Hulan 2010). Several of his songs were printed in Kentucky Harmony and its supplements. Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	MOURNER (Carrell)
Composer:	James P. Carrell
Meter:	8.8.8.8 D
Incipit:	13215 612
Key:	C Major
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Still out of the deepest abyss

Still out of the deepest abyss
Of trouble I mournfully cry,
And pine to recover my peace,
And see my Redeemer and die.
I cannot, I cannot forbear
These passionate longings for home;
O when shall my spirits be there?
O when will the messenger come?

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