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Potomac C.M.

By Aldo Thomas Ceresa

Key
E minor
Type
Fuging tune
Time signature
4
4
Composed
2008
Text
Isaac Watts, 1707

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Description

Named for the Potomac River Sacred Harp Convention, where the tune was first sung at the PRC New Traditions Session in April, 2008. This tune was also sung by the Art Mob in their Spring, 2009 concerts.


Text

Must friends and kindred droop and die,
And helpers be withdrawn,
While sorrow, with a weeping eye,
Counts all our comforts gone?

Be thou our Comfort, mighty God!
Our Helper and our Friend;
Nor leave us in this dang'rous road,
Till all our trials end.