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Carrollton C.M.

By Aldo Thomas Ceresa

Key
D major
Type
Fuging tune
Time signature
4
4
Composed
2008–13
Text
Joseph Proud, 1790

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Description

Named for Carrollton, GA. An earlier version of this tune was first sung at Wilson's Chapel in August, 2008. (Wilson's Chapel is located just outside of Carrollton.) This tune was also sung by The Art Mob in their Spring, 2013 concerts. Carrollton appears in The Trumpet, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2014).


Text

O could I soar to worlds above,
That blessed state of peace and love!
How gladly would I mount and fly
On angels' wings to joys on high!

When he commands my soul away,
No worldly cares shall my feet stay;
With rapture I shall wake, and rise
To join my friends above the skies.