Annotation:Concord March
X:1 % T:Concord March M:C L:1/8 R:March S: Seth Johnson – Woburn Fife Manuscript (c. 1807-40?, p. 7) Z:AK/Fiddler’s Companion K:G G2G2 GABG|D2D2 ABcA|D2G2 GABG|edcB BGBG| cAcA dBdB|ecec B2A2|GDAD BDGF|G2 G>G G2:| |:D|GBBB B3B|A>G F>E E3D|AAAA A3G|BAGF D3 E/F/| GF EF/G/ AG FG/A/|BA GA/B/ cBAG|GDAD BDGF|G2 G>G G2:|]
CONCORD MARCH American, March (whole time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. An American march that was printed in Joseph Herrick's The Instrumental Preceptor (Exeter, N.H., 1807). The march was also entered into the Woburn Fife Manuscript (c. 1807-40?), a ms. collection inscribed with the the name Seth Johnson and "Woburn. April 20th day, 1807. I Bought this Book, 5:3." Entries were made between 1807 and perhaps as late as 1840. It was also entered in to the manuscript collection of Dexter Dean (entries also by Jacob Hardon and James Clark), a commonplace book from about 1800-1808 as "Concord S.M." (Short Meter) to which were set the words by Isaac Watts (1674-1748) beginning "The hill of Zion yields a thousand sacred sweets."
The hill of Zion yields
A thousand sacred sweets,
Before we reach the heavenly fields,
Or walk the golden streets.
Then let your songs abound,
And every tear be dry;
We're marching through Immanuel's ground,
To fairer worlds on high. .....The Southern Harmony (1835)
The words have been set to various duple- and triple-time tunes by Bartholomew Brown (1792), Oliver Holden (1835), and Robert Lowry (1867).