This 1972 film documents sacred harp singing, a 200 year old tradition of religious singing which survives today in the | dG1fZVdCOEF5ZlJGY0E
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00:00Well, it's a gospel, it's a joy, you make it in your heart, it's a melody in your heart.
00:27Sacred Harp singing is a part of the life of these people.
00:36The music has been flavored by the folk tunes of the Scotch Irish who settled in the southern
00:40hills.
00:41The singing is named for a songbook, Sacred Harp, published in 1844.
00:47How it got its name is not known.
00:50You would think that little places throughout the country exist, you know, be sort of crude
00:56or something, but they aren't, the words are, just listen to them sometimes, yeah.