I came to the place where the lone pilgrim lay,
And pensively stood by the tomb,
When in a low whisper I heard something say,
How sweetly I sleep here alone!
According to Thomas Commuck, the earliest known notater and annotater of this tune, the tune was "A tradition of the New York Indians". Later attributions to B. F. White and/or William Walker appear to relate at most to the harmonizations and textual details of the versions they used in their later tunebooks.
Tune Title: THE LONE PILGRIMFirst Line: I came to the place where the lone pilgrim layComposer: B. F. WhiteMeter: 11s, 8s.Incipit: 13555 56115 32113Key: D♭ MajorDate: 1991