No. 223 Come Friends Go With Me, Csh 206
Heptatonic ionian, mode 3 A + b (I II III IV V VI VII)
Alas! and did my Savior bleed,
Alas! and did my Savior bleed,
Alas! and did my Savior bleed
And did my Sov’reign die?
Would He devote that sacred head
For such a worm as I.
Chorus
I want my friends to go with me,
I want my friends to go with me,
I want my friends to go with me
To the new Jerusalem.
I wonder, Lord, shall I ever get to heaven,
The new Jerusalem.
William Hauser included the above tune, with different text, in his Olive Leaf. Of the above chorus, “sometimes sung after each verse,” he says: “Not worth while to criticise this chorus. Does anybody criticise a camel? No; they take him for his usefulness”.