Pilgrim's Farewell (Jacob French)

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(Posted 2023-04-25) CPDL #73587:

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-04-25). Score information: A5, 1 page, 64 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Arranged by Henry Beecher in two-staff four-part SATB "hymn" style. Transcribed from Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes, 1855, p. 392.

(Posted 2023-04-25) CPDL #73586:

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-04-25). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 52 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Round-note version, as in 1802. Transcribed from Harmony of Harmony, 1802; French has added music and words to the coda.

(Posted 2023-04-25) CPDL #73585:

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-04-25). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 60 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Four-shape note version. Transcribed from Harmony of Harmony, 1802; French has added music and words to the coda.

(Posted 2023-04-24) CPDL #73584:

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-04-24). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 50 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Psalmodist's Companion, 1793. Round notes and the first stanza included, as in 1793.

(Posted 2023-04-24) CPDL #73570:

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2023-04-24). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 57 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transcribed from The Psalmodist's Companion, 1793. Note heads in four-shape format. The first stanza included, as in 1793.

General Information

Title: Pilgrim's Farewell
First Line: Fare you well, my friends
Composer: Jacob French
Lyricist: Samuel Crossman
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: TrCtTB
Genre: Sacred, Psalm-tune

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1793 in The Psalmodist's Companion, p. 74
2nd published: 1802 in Harmony of Harmony, lyrics expanded from 1793, p. 105
3rd published: 1805 in The Christian Harmony (Jeremiah Ingalls), with different first stanza, p. 120
4th published: 1813 in Wyeth's Repository, Part Second, p. 41
5th published: 1832 in A Compilation of Genuine Church Music, for STB, Edition 1, p. 164
6th published: 1835 in Southern Harmony, for STB, p. 158
7th published: 1844 in The Sacred Harp (1844), for STB, p. 185
8th published: 1848 in The Hesperian Harp, SATB version of French 1802, p. 358
9th published: 1855 in Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes (Charles Beecher), four-part "hymn" style, p. 392
Description: The hymn by Crossman first set to music by Jacob French in 1793, with slightly amended first stanza and a coda by an unknown author (perhaps French). French expanded the coda in 1802. In 1805, Jeremiah Ingalls reduced French's 1793 version to three parts, and added an additional stanza before French's first stanza. John Wyeth reduced French's 1802 version to three parts. Joseph Funk reprinted Ingalls' three-part version in 1832, which was also reprinted by William Walker in Southern Harmony in 1835, and the same in The Sacred Harp in 1844. William Hauser reprinted French's 1802 version in The Hesperian Harp in 1848. It has been re-arranged and reprinted many times since then.
Words by Samuel Crossman, 1664, revised by Samson Occom, 1774, Jacob French, 1793-1802, and Beecher 1855.

External websites:

Article in Hymnology Archive

Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at Farewell, my friends, I must be gone.