“Wear – ied trav- ‘lers lay a – sleep, When the shep – herds, from the sky, Hear the an – gels’ voic – es cry.”
Christmas/Seasonal Tunes from The Valley Pocket Harmonist
Will Fitgerald has a terrific list that covers three of the most commonly used four-shape note tunebooks, but since the VPH is so new, I wanted to “crowdsource” a list for it.
A very data-driven article at The Sacred Harp Publishing Company’s website might be of interest: Seasonal Songs
Of course, if you don’t have a copy of the book, that’s easy to fix: https://www.shenandoahharmony.com/buy-our-books/
You can add to this list by going right to the Google document here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bfEusoZE0dWsB1VMhvIKS1cqBSccUYaq9guqOClAHu8/edit?usp=sharing
As of January 26th, 2025 the list is as follows:
26 Revelee
(64 Hermon)
(123 New Sharon)
164 Emerald Gates
183 Zion’s Light
232 Truth From Above
242 Star of Columbia
248 Jane’s Encouragement
251 Long Beach
268 Bethlehem
295 Sunbury
305 Morning Star
*Parenthesis means one person suggested it, and another person thought it was not appropriate for the theme. This is an active project, so I’m not making “editorial” decisions on the list at this point.