Mayfields L.M.
By Steve Brett
- Key
- B♭ major
- Type
- Camp meeting tune
- Time signature
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2
4 - Composed
- 2018
- Text
- Charles Wesley, 1749
Listen to recordings
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2019 Bristol composium
Led by Matthew Parkinson at the Bristol composium, 10 May 2019.
Description
I wrote this tune in my head whilst cycling home along the river Avon on 7 December 2018, and harmonised it when I got home. I added the alto on Christmas Eve.
Text
Come on, my partners in distress,
When we get to heav'n, we'll part no more;
My comrades through the wilderness,
When we get to heav'n, we'll part no more.
Chorus:
Oh, we'll part no more; yes, we'll part no more:
When we get to heav'n, we'll part no more.
A while forget your griefs and fears,
etc
And look beyond the vale of tears.
Beyond the bounds of time, and space,
Look forward to that happy place.