...years. Benjamin Rogers born Nov. 29, 1769 died April 2, 1842. Hark from the tombs a doleful sound, My ears attend the cry, Ye living men come view the ground Where you must shortly lie. Princes, this day must be your bed In spite of all your towers, The tall, the wise, the reverent head Shall Jie as...

...Jones would line out a long hymn, verse by verse, such as : "Hark from the tomb a doleful sound, My ears attend the cry ; Ye living men, come view the ground, Where you must shortly lie." This would be pitched in a minor tune — the most of our tunes were minors — La, la, sol. do; Sol...

...this life Oct'r ye 17th 1788 Aged 81 years, 3 months and 16 days Hark from ye tombs a doleful sound My ears attend the cry Ye living men come view the ground Where you must shortly lie. Erected in memory of D"' EPHRAIM ROBBINS who died July 29, 1820 Act. 62 Erected in memory of MRS. SIBBIL...

...church-yard, Reverend Henkle started the solemn hymn : "Hark, from the tomb a doleful sound, Mine ear attend the cry ; Ye living men, come view the ground W'here you must shortly lie." and all joined in the processional singing. John Lingle, who met his death in a powder mill explosion...

...omitted the joyous "When I survey the Wondrous Cross" but included "My Thoughts on Awful Subjects Roll": Hark, from the tombs a doleful sound, Mine ears attend...come, view the ground Where you must shortly lie. Divine wrath and a grim hereafter entered at least on Sundays into the minds of those who sang such...

...in The Missouri Harmony. Folks sang this popular verse of Watts to another doleful, folkish melody: Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound, Mine ears attend...come view the ground Where you must shortly lie." So persistently did songs dwell on the themes of death, decay, and depravity, that musicologist Alan...

...to the literature of this Senate," offering in the process "the strains of that familiar old hymn: Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound; /Mine ears attend the cry ./Come, living men, and view the ground/Where your bills must shortly lie. (Laughter)." Ibid. (25 March...

...pervasive gloom retain their importance for Primitive Baptists: Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound! My ears, attend the cry: Ye living men, come view the ground Where you must shortly lie. (Goble, p. 139) The time is swiftly rolling on When I must faint and die; My body to the dust return,...

...other were played upon by hands exactly alike. They chanted as they marched in perfect time and step, " Hark ! from the tombs a doleful sound ! Mine ears...come view the ground Where you must shortly lie," in doleful sound very suggestive of a funeral. Carried along with the procession, we at last reached...

...by either the interviewee or the reporter, for the hymn is "Hark! From the Tomb" and the words are "Ye living men come view the ground where you must shortly lie." Abernethy, Singin' Texas, 112-13; W M. Cooper, The Sacred Harp Revised and Improved, 162. 7 The preliminary...