Shaker Songs

These arrangements retain the simplicity and directness of the shaker originals. The five pieces in the octavo are as follows: Peace; Heavenly Display; Lay Me Low; Love is Little; and Benediction. The text and tune for Peace is from the Shaker song Peace to Zion, Enfield, New Hampshire, ca 1851. The text and tune for Heavenly Display is adapted from the Shaker Song of the same name, New Lebanon, New York, 1838. The text and tune for Lay Me Low is adapted from the Shaker Song of the same name by Addah Z. Potter, New Lebanon, New York, ca 1838. The text and tune for Love is Little is adapted from the Shaker Song of the same name, South Union, Kentucky, 1834. Benediction is adapted from the Shaker song Slow March, by Brother Ephraim Frost, Whitewater, Ohio, 1872.