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A LYSTE.
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OF SACRED HYMNES
AND TUNES, AND LIKEWISE WORLDLEY
SONG, CERTAIN OF Wh WERE SUNG
Ye YEAR OF OUR LORD
1774.
AND WILL BE ONCE MORE PLAYED AND SUNG
BY Ye OLD FOLKS, AT
YE SLIDING RINK,
In ye town of Opelika on ye 3rd day of December
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Doores will be opened at early candle light' and ye musicale
will begin at 8 by ye clock.
N.B. Squire Homes and Dr. Trinkerhoof, and certain
others of ye men fold will finde ye women folks good seats.
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FIDLERS:-Hezakiah Prandy and Peladiah Snodgrass.
TRUMPETER:-Obejoyful Hornblower.
WOMEN SINGERS.-Deliverence Higgins, Love Sparks, Aunt Polly Basset,
Prudence Primrose, Blossom Cornflower, Mistrese
Jurusha Cooper, (she that was a Bumpus,) Charity
Doolittle and others.
MEN SINGERS:-Bartlet Coffin, Interped Barboner, Salathial Hig-
ginbottom and certain others.
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PART FIRST
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1. Auld Lang Syne, - - - - - - - - - -All ye men and women singerf.
2. Flow gently sweet afton, - Squire Barebones two little lads.
3. Worldly one part tune. Oft in the stilly night.
- - - - - - - - - - - -Salatheal Higginbortom.
4. Worldly Fiddle tunes, - - - - - - - -Hezakiae Prandy, and others.
5. Worldly one parte tune, Kathleene Mavouneen,
- - - -- - - - - - - - - - -Blossom Cornflower.
6. Life on the Ocean wave - - - - - -All ye men and women singers.
7. Very sad fiddle tune, Home sweet Home, - - - - - - - - - - - - -
8. Two parte world tune,
Mistress J. Cooper and Blossom Cornflower.
9. Very worldly one parte tune. Polly Perkins, - - - - - - - - - - - -
10. Fiddle tune, - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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11. Dundee - - - - - - - - - - - - - - All ye men and women singers.
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N.B.-Forafmuch as ye younge women who sing are
shamefafte, ye younge menne are defired to loke awaie from
them when thia singe.
N.B.-any old ladyes whofe foot stoves need frefh coals,
can now have them sente in from Naber Cushman hys kitchen, as
his woman fold will keep up a big fyre on purpofe.
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PART SECOND
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1. Very worldly fiddle tune,
Blossom Cornflower, Abigal Barney and Hezakiaa Prandy.
2. Cambells are comin, - - - - - - - All ye men and women singers.
3. Worldly tune. Rose of Lucrhe,- - - - - - - - - - - Abigal
Barney.
4. "
" Annie Laurie, - - - - - - - - - - - -Charity Doolittle.
5. Fiddle tune. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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6. Affecting one parte tune. John Anderson and, Rebeca Anderson
7. Meare - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - All ye men and women
singers.
8. Worldly one parte tune, Coming throgh the Rye
- - - - - - - - - - - -Blossom Cornflower.
9. Fiddle tune, - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hezakiah Prandy and
others.
10. One part worldly tune, O dear what can the matter be,
- - - - - - - - - - - - - -Love Sparks.
11. Very worldly one parte tune, Sixty two,
Aunt Polly Basset.
12. Coronation. - - - - - - - - -- - -All ye men and women singers.
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N.B.-All thofe who are much bleffed as to have good
lunges and religious training, are expected to ftand up
and help singe ye laft hymn.
N.B.-Women with younge children may as well go in and
sit at naber Barnes her fyre. if so bee thai grow weairie-clofe bye
ye Hall.
N.B.-Mehitable King will keep ye geefe away from ye
front dore.
N.B.-If ye congregation do call loudly for ye
entertainment, ye men and women singerf may cheerfully mindye call,
for ye sake of some ther good cause.
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JOHN SAMUEL LOGAN, YE JOB PRINTER OP OPELIKA
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NOTE-The above is facsimile of a printed program
of a skating rink "Sing" of December 3, 1774, attended by an
ancestor of a local citizen and preserved to this day. |
