767. Thorny Desert
'Thorny Desert.' Sung by Miss Jewell Robbins, Pekin, Montgomery county. No date given. Frank C. Brown notes : "See Southern Harmony p. 85. This is different air. Many of these sung at Blackwood's Chapel, Montgomery county." Nevertheless, the song, with the exception of the initial live measures of the chorus, is identical with the version in Southern Harmony, p. 83, as quoted in ASoWS 146.
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Rough and thorny— IS the desart,
Need - y pil - grims make their way.
But be - yond this vale of sor - rows,
Lie the fields of end - less day.
Fiends, loud howl - ing through the des - ert
Make them trem - ble as they go;
And the fiery darts of Satan
Oft bring their age low.
For melodic relationship cf: **ASoWS 146, No. 250.
Scale : Mode III, plagal. Tonal Center : g. Structure : aaba (4,4,4,4) = Reprisenbar.