No. 104 Rose, Rev 332
Heptatonic aeolian or dorian minorized, cannot be classified (I II 3 IV V [VI] 6 [VII] 7)
O tell me no more Of this world’s vain store,
The time for such trifles With me now is o’er.
A country I’ve found Where true joys abound,
To dwell I’m determined On that happy ground.
The souls that believe, in paradise live,
And me in that number will Jesus receive;
My soul, don’t delay, he calls thee away;
Rise, follow the Savior, and bless the glad day.
Four more stanzas of the text are given in the Revivalist. The tune was recorded “as sung by Rev. A. C. Rose” from whom it got its title. The oldest recording of the melody known to me is on page 38 of Ingalls’ Christian Harmony, 1805. The Reverend Rose’s song appears in this collection also as ‘O Tell Me No More’, in its standardized tune-book form, whereas the recorder of the above variant has caught much of the folk-singing manner. Both of the tunes in question are related to the ‘Lord Randal’ melodies which are found in Sharp, i., 43, G.