Awake and Sing the Song

DESCRIPTION: "Awake and sing the song Of Moses and the Lamb." The singer is to sing of Christ's "dying love" and "risen power." On the road to Zion's city all pilgrims sing "of Moses and the Lamb"
AUTHOR: Words: Rev. W Hammond / Music: Aaron Williams (source: Sankey 1880)
EARLIEST DATE: 1939 (WITrinidadVillage02); Eddy says the tune "Walbridge" was in Henry Smith's 1831 "the Church Harmony"
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious Jesus
FOUND IN: West Indies(Trinidad)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
MidwestFolklore, Mary O. Eddy, "Twenty Folk Hymns," Volume 3, Number 1 (Spring 1953), p. 37, "Walbridge S.M." (1 excerpt, 1 tune)
ADDITIONAL: Ira D. Sankey, _Sacred Songs and Solos: Twelve Hundred Hymns_ (London: Marshall Morgan & Scott Ltd, 1921? ("Digitized by Internet Archive")) #254 (1880 #412), ("Awake and sing the song") (1 text)
RECORDINGS:
Henry Williams, Henry Thomas, Allan Lovelace, George Roberts, "Pilgrim On the Way" (on WITrinidadVillage02)
NOTES [26 words]: The WITrinidadVillage02 Spiritual Baptist hymn is only two lines of Sankey's third verse -- "Ye pilgrims on the road To Zion's city, sing" -- repeated. - BS
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