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IDUMEA (Roud 6678, Sacred Harp 47b)
A glorious, rousing Sacred Harp hymn by Charles Wesley [1707-88]. Wesley wrote over 6,500 hymns in his lifetime, most of them absolute bangers. Ananias Davisson composed the mysterious melody. This is my way through the song, having soaked myself in multiple versions with multiple harmonies…

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And am I born to die?
To lay this body down?
And must my trembling spirit fly
Into a world unknown?

A land of deepest shade,
Unpierced by human thought,
The dreary regions of the dead,
Where all things are forgot.

When as from earth I go,
What will become of me?
Eternal happiness or woe
Must then my portion be.

Waked by the trumpet sound,
I from my grave shall rise,
To see the Judge with glory crowned,
And see the blazing skies.

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from The Brown Girl and Other Folk Songs, released May 1, 2022
Trad. Arr: Angeline Morrison
Vocals & Autoharp: Angeline Morrison

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Angeline Morrison and The Ambassadors of Sorrow

"Bewitching and otherworldly... Morrison's voice is eerily confiding, strangely present, insistent even at its quietest" Folk Radio UK.

Believing in the beauty of sad songs, weaving folk, soul and beat sounds of the '60s into a tapestry of the human heart. Homespun sounds that reside in a nostalgic universe.

"Dark, unsettling folk that verges on the hymnal" BBC Introducing.
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