Shaker Songs: Come To Zion

Norumbega Harmony, with additional singers from Hancock Shaker Village, 1993

Typical Dancing - MPH, 1813
Holy Order Tune - 1790
In Yonder's Valley - Father James' Song, 1786
Soldiers of Christ - MPH, 1813
Mount Zion - Isaachar Bates, 1819
By Freedom Invited - Isaachar Bates, 1835
I Never Did Believe - Betsy Bates, 1829
Love is Little - South Union, KY, 1834
Great I Little i - New Lebanon, NY, 1830s
Come Life Shaker Life - Isaachar Bates, 1835
Who Will Bow and Bend Like a Willow - Canterbury, NH, 1843
Mother's Tongue - D. A. Buckingham, 1845
Fall On the Rock - Watervliet, NY, 1845
Simple Gifts - Joseph Brackett, 1848
Willow Tree - New Lebanon, NY, 1847
O Ho The Pretty Chain - Martha Truesdale, 1845
Round Around - Sabbathday Lake, ME
Zion's Kingdom - Betsy Spaulding, 1849
Come To Zion - Paulina Bates, 1864
Farewell Earthly Glory - Otis Sawyer, 1849
Yielding and Simple - Malissa Soule, 1869
To A Fullness - Enfield, NH, 1868
Bow Down, O Zion - Otis Sawyer, 1870
Let Zion Move - Alfred, ME, 1908
Good Samaritan - CH 1908
Star of Purity - 1892 hymnal
Consolation - 1892 hymnal
Summerland - 1908 hymnal
Psalm of Joy - CH 1908
Praise God - CH 1892
Exaltation - CH 1908
Millenial Praise - 1908 hymnal
We Will All Go Home With You - Canterbury, NH, 1862
All At Home - from singing of Mildred Barker
Farewell Song - Hancock, MA, 1850s

CH - Canterbury Hymnal
MPH - Millenial Praises Hymnal

We sang The Good Samaritan, Millenial Praise and Consolation, in a live broadcast from Tanglewood on A Prairie Home Companion. Audio clips are available from their 2000 July 01 archive.

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Original 1 January 1995
Last Modified: Mar 05 23:28 2002 / Ishmael the Fiddler