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GLASGOW (Dare)

GLASGOW (Dare)

Composer: Dare
Published in 2 hymnals


Audio files: MIDI

Composer: Dare

Elkanah Kelsey Dare (1782-1826) was born in New Jersey but moved to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania sometime before 1818. He was a Methodist [sic Presbyterian] minister and very possibly the music editor for John Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second (1813), a shaped-note collection that includes more than a dozen of his tunes. Emily Brink Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title: GLASGOW (Dare)
Composer: Dare
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Incipit: 15565 32156 71653
Key: G Major
Copyright: Public Domain
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Texts

This Life's a dream, an empty show

This life's a dream, an empty show;
But the bright world to which I go
Hath joys substantial and sincere;
When shall I wake and find me there?

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The Primitive Baptist Hymnal #49

The Primitive Baptist Hymnal #49
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The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion (New ed. thoroughly rev. and much enl.) #295

The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion (New ed. thoroughly rev. and much enl.) #295
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