Bible Songs — Temperance Songs

Pure, Cold Water

Pure, cold water! We would recommend cold water;

No. 1386
Tune PURE, COLD WATER.
Words F. E. B.
Music Arranged from the German.
Key C major
Singing key A♭ major
Time 4/4
1 stanzas

Words

Pure, cold water! We would recommend cold water;'Tis the best of drinks for ev'ry son and daughter.On the valley, or the plain, or the mountain,There's no other drink compares with the fountain:Cold water, cold water;There is health in pure, cold water,There is wealth in pure, cold water.Bear away your wine and beer, and your cider;Nature's right to rule must never be denied her.We would recommend cold water, cold water,Cold water, cold water, cold water,—We would recommend the pure, cold water!

We would recommend, yes, we would recommend cold water,

About this hymn

As printed As printed: hymn number «1386» (large, left), title «PURE, COLD WATER.» centred (condensed capitals with larger initials); under it the epigraph «"He sendeth the springs into the valleys ; * * They give drink to every beast of the field."—Ps. 104 : 10, 11.» (the two asterisks are the print's mark of omission between verses 10 and 11); then «F. E. B.» at the left (words) and «ARRANGED FROM THE GERMAN.» at the right (music), capitals and small capitals. No meter, no reference line, no running head, no stanza number. The words are one through-composed stanza set under the music, one line of words per system (two lines in system 5); they are given here as the verse lines of the poem (rhymes water / daughter, mountain / fountain, cider / denied her). The music marks the dynamics «f», «p Duet.» (system 2, sung on the treble staff alone), «f», «p» (system 4: soprano and tenor sing «Bear away your wine and beer, and your cider;», alto and bass answer «Nature's right to rule must never be denied her.»), «cres.» and «ff». In system 5 two lines are printed at once: the upper (soprano) «We would recommend cold water, cold water, Cold» and the lower (alto, tenor and bass) «We would recommend, yes, we would recommend cold water,»; the lower line is given after the stanza. In system 6 «cold water,» after the first «water,» is sung by tenor and bass alone (an echo). Syllable hyphens are joined («rec-ommend», «val-ley», «mount-ain», «oth-er», «fount-ain», «ci-der», «nev-er», «de-nied», «ev-'ry»). The print sets a thin space before «;», «:» and «!» («wa-ter ;», «fount-ain :», «water !»); it is closed up here. Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's («'Tis», «ev'ry», «water,—We»). Under the music: «Copyrighted 1886 by F. E. Belden.» and the page number «594».