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O
COME
AWAY
H.
M.
"And
be
not
drunk
with
wine
wherein
is
excess:"
Eph.
5-18.
Key
of
D
Major,
1.
O
come,
come
a
-
way,
From
la
-
bour
now
re
-
pos
-
ing,
Our
ju
-
bi
-
lee
has
set
us
free.
-O
come,
come
a
way!
2.
We
wel
-
come
you
here!
With
heart
and
hand
wide
o
-
pen,
Ye
gal
-
lant
sons
of
tem-per-ance,
We
wel
-
come
you
here!
3.
We
wel
-
come
you
here!
Ye
who
with
taste
per
-
vert
ed
Have
seized
the
cup, and
drank
it
up,-
We
wel
-
come
you
here!
4.
We
wel
-
come
yon
here!
Ye
who
your
vows
have
brok
-
en,
Fall-ing
be-fore
the
tem-ter's
power,-
We
wel
-
come
you
herel!
5. We
wel
-
come
you
here!
Ye
maids
and
ma
-
trons
love-ly
Whose
charms,
we
yeild,
must
win
the
field,
We
wel
-
come
you
here.
Come,
hail
the
day
that
cel
-
e
-
brates
The
ran
-
som
of
th'in
-e
bri
-
ates
From
all
that
in
-
tox
-
cates,
O
come,
come
a
way!
Heav
'ns
bless-ings
on
your plans we
pray!
Ye
come
our
sinking
friends
to
save,
and
res
-
cue
from
a
drunk-ard's
grave,
We
wel
-
come
you
here
Come,
join
us
in
our
holy
aim,
the
poor
be
-
sot
-
ted
to
re
-
claim,
The
broken
heart
to
cheer
a
-
gain,
-O
come,
sign
the
pledge!
Ye
who
have
sold
your-selves
for
naught,
Take
back
the
price
-
less
boon
you
bought,
O
take
a
sober,
second
thougt,
and
try,
try
again!
Ye
who
have
hearts
to
feel
for
woe,
Wide
as
the
streams
of
sor
-
row
flow,
O
frown
on
the
dead
-
ly
foe
But
smile
on
the
sons!
The
above
tune
was
first
published
in
the
Sacred
Harp
by
B.
F.
White
in
1850.
It
is
one
of
the
temperance
songs,
composed
for
a
temperance
association.
called
the
sons
of
temperance.
This
association
had
quite
a
collection
of
tunes
on
the
same
order
of
the
above.
This
tune
is
supposed
to
have
been
taken
from
one
of
these
collections.
It
also
appears
in
the
Christian
Harmony
by
Walker
1866
page
358,
also
in
Missouri
Harmony
by
Carden
in
1827,
and
published
in
many
other
songs
and
tune
books.
Walker
in
his
book
gives
William
Houser
credit
for
the
treble.