Bible Songs — Miscellaneous

We'll tarry by the living waters

No. 1214
Tune TARRY BY THE LIVING WATERS.
Words F. E. B.
Music F. E. Belden.
Key E-flat major
Singing key E♭ major
Time 4/4
3 stanzas

Words

We'll tarry by the living waters,The fountain pure and free;There Jesus waits to give us welcome,A welcome sweet 'twill be.

Chorus.

We'll tarry by the living waters,fount of living waters,Tarry by the living waters;fount of living waters;Tarry by the living waters,fount of living waters,Tarry by the Fount of Life.

When weary with the toilsome journey,'Tis sweet to rest awhileWhere crystal waters gently murmur,And sunny fountains smile.

Then come to Christ, the living water,Thy strength will he restore;Come, taste the joy of his salvation,And drink to thirst no more.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: hymn number «1214» (large, left), title «TARRY BY THE LIVING WATERS.» centred (condensed capitals with larger initials); under it the epigraph in one line, «"I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely."—Rev. 21 : 6.»; «F. E. B.» at the left (the words) and «F. E. BELDEN.» at the right (the music; capitals and small capitals); no meter, no reference line and no running head are printed. The three stanzas are interlinear, «1.»–«3.» before the lines of system 1; the chorus, headed «CHORUS.», is printed once (systems 3 and 4) and is sung after every stanza. In the chorus the soprano and alto sing «Tarry by the living waters» and hold «waters» while the tenor and bass add «fount of living waters» on a second, lower lyric row (three times); those echo lines are indented below. «Copyrighted 1886 by The J. E. White Pub. Co.» is printed under the music, above the page number «432». The print sets a thin space before «;» and «:» («free ;», «re-store ;», «wa-ters ;», «21 : 6»); it is closed up here. Words divided under the notes are joined («tar-ry», «liv-ing», «wa-ters», «wa-ter», «fount-ain», «wea-ry», «toil-some», «jour-ney», «a-while», «re-store», «Je-sus», «wel-come», «crys-tal», «gen-tly», «mur-mur», «sun-ny», «fount-ains», «sal-va-tion», «Tar-ry» → «tarry», «living», «waters», «water», «fountain», «weary», «toilsome», «journey», «awhile», «restore», «Jesus», «welcome», «crystal», «gently», «murmur», «sunny», «fountains», «salvation», «Tarry»); in the echo «waters» (first time) and «living waters» (second time) are printed solid under two notes each. Each stanza is set in its four verse lines (9.6.9.6), each beginning with a capital as printed (the print runs two verse lines on each staff line). Spelling («'Tis», «'twill»), punctuation and capitals («Fount of Life») are the print's.