No. 89 Salvation (A), Bs 127
Hexatonic, mode 1 B (I II — IV V VI VII)
O thou God of my salvation,
My Redeemer from all sin,
Moved by thy divine compassion,
Who hast died my heart to win.
I will praise thee, I will praise thee;
Where shall I thy praise begin?
Angels now are hov’ring round us,
Unperceived amid the throng;
Wond’ring at the love that crown’d us,
Glad to join the holy song;
Hallelujah, hallelujah,
Love and praise to Christ belong.
The tune is evidently a remake of ‘Locks and Bolts’. Compare, for example, Sharp, ii., 19. The difference between the two tunes is probably due in part to their structure, which provided real difficulties for their recorders, and in part to the efforts of the Bible Songs arranger to make the apparently dorian tune fit into current scale formulas. Compare also ‘Bed of Primroses’, Thomas, p. 176.