Level: 3
Tuning: Standard

The words to this old favorite was written in 1855 by one Joseph M. Scriven, with the melody added some time later by Charles Crozat Converse. Though Converse's other hymn tunes are little remembered, it is interesting to note that he was also the author of a guitar method book in 1858, though that predated his composition of this melody. Nonetheless, the tune has been reasonably popular for fingerpickers, and this intermediate arrangement in C is fairly typical.