Fly Crick (Nathaniel Billings)

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  • (Posted 2021-11-02)  CPDL #66499:         
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2021-11-02).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 59 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Oval notes. Transcribed from Harmony of Harmony, 1802.
  • (Posted 2021-11-02)  CPDL #66498:       
Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2021-11-02).   Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 62 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). Transcribed from Harmony of Harmony, 1802.

General Information

Title: Fly Crick
First Line: When all thy mercies, O my God
Composer: Nathaniel Billings
Lyricist: Joseph Addison
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred   Meter: 86. 86 (C.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1795 in The Republican Harmony, no. 20
    2nd published: 1802 in Harmony of Harmony
Description: Title "Fly-Creek" in 1795, changed (apparently by Billings) to "Fly Crick" in 1802. "Crick" is backwoods and rural American dialect for "Creek". Words by Joseph Addison, 1712.

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Original text and translations

Original text and translations may be found at When all thy mercies, O my God.