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Recording from the 2009 Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Singing Convention.
www.wmshc.org

Images from the 1860 edition of the Sacred Harp, available online from the Library of Congress.

From www.FaSoLa.org:

Tune: Thomas W. Carter, 1844
Words: 1774
Meter: Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)

What poor, despised company
Of travelers are these,
That walk in yonder narrow way,
Along the rugged maze?
Ah, they are of a royal line,
All children of a King;
Heirs of immortal crowns divine,
And loud for joy they sing.