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Newberry L.M.

By Robert Kelley

Key
B♭ major
Type
Plain tune
Time signature
4
4
Composed
2011
Text
Samuel Medley, versified by R.T. Kelley, 1799

Text

I am a poor and shattered boat,

About to gain the blissful port,

And, oh, how sweet will be the shore,

After the storm of life is o'er.

 

I'm looking up to God above,

Who is my portion and my love,

Though I am tired, the pain is stark, 

Oh, dying is sweet work, sweet work!