The Sacred Harp ‎#37a

37a. Young ladies, all attention give

1 Young ladies, all attention give,
You that in wicked pleasures live;
One of your sex, the other day,
Was called by death’s cold hand away.

2 This lesson she has left for you,
To teach the careless what to do;
To seek Jehovah while you live,
And everlasting honors give.

3 Her honored mother she addressed,
While tears were streaming down her breast;
She grasped her tender hands and said,
“Remember me when I am dead.”

4 She called her father to her bed,
And thus, in dying anguish said:
"My days on earth are at an end,
My soul is summoned to attend.

5 “Before Jehovah’s awful bar,
To hear my awful sentence there;
And now, dear father, do repent,
And read the holy Testament.”

Text Information

• First Line: Young ladies, all attention give
• Meter: L.M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1991
• Source: Hall's New Collection, 1804

Tune Information

• Name: ESTER
• Composer: John S. Terry (1869)
• Meter: L.M.
• Key: F Major