Tune: THE LONE PILGRIM

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THE LONE PILGRIM

Composer: B. F. White; Composer (attributed to): William Walker (1854)
Published in 9 hymnals

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Composer: B. F. White

Benjamin F. White (b. Spartanburg, SC, 1800; d. Atlanta, GA, 1879), was coeditor of The Sacred Harp (1844). He came from a family of fourteen children and was largely self-taught. Eventually White became a popular singing-school teacher and editor of the weekly Harris County newspaper. Bert Polman Go to person page >

Composer (attributed to): William Walker

(no biographical information available about William Walker.) Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	THE LONE PILGRIM
Composer (attributed to):	William Walker (1854)
Composer:	B. F. White
Meter:	11.8.11.8
Incipit:	13553 55671 65321
Key:	E♭ Major
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

The Lone Pilgrim

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!

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The Righteous Shall Hold On His Way

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Notes

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.

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