Walkley

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You get a pdf of the score of the arrangement and an mp3 of a live recording. The text and the tune are both from the oral tradition. Peter Amidon's arrangement is based on Neely B ruces stunning SATB shape note arrangement of the song which can be found in two American shape note song collections: Northern Harmony and the September 2025 edition of the Sacred Harp. This performance is by West Willow (Hannah North - solo, Emma Schneider, Zara Bode, Arthur Davis, Fred Breunig, and Stefan Amidon – Anna Patton clarinet, Guillaume Sparrow-Pepin accordion, Cathy Martin piano).You can hear Neely Bruce's a cappella shape note arrangement performed here by Larry Gordon's Northern Harmony singers: https://northernharmony.bandcamp.com/track/walkley-2This is an extraordinarily beautiful combination of lyrics, melody and harmony.While passing a garden, I paused there to hearthe voice of a stranger, the planter was near.I wept to behold him, I asked him his name,and he answered ‘tis Jesus, from heaven I came.I am thy redeemer, for thee I must die;The cup is most bitter, but cannot pass by.His eyes bright as diamonds, to heaven were raised,While the angels stood wond’ring, around him amazed. Show more