DESCRIPTION:
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: Edmund Dumas, 1859
Words: Isaac Watts, 1709
Meter: Common Meter (8,6,8,6)

There is a house not made with hands,
Eternal, and on high;
And here my spirit waiting stands,
Till God shall bid it fly.

Chorus:

I long to see my friends again,
And hear them sweetly say,
Come, weary dove, here is thy home,
Then fold thy wings and stay.

Shortly this prison of clay
Must be dissolved and fall;
Then, Oh my soul, with joy obey
Thy heavnly Fathers call.

(Chorus)

Tis He, by His almighty grace,
That forms thee fit for heavn;
And as an earnest of the place,
Has His own Spirit givn.

(Chorus)