There Is a Fountain (Cleansing Fountain) on hammered dulcimer by Timothy Seaman

http://www.timothyseaman.com Timothy Seaman plays a great Appalachian folk hymn from the shape-note tradition --- in his own pianistic solo hammered dulcimer approach. The simple, sentimental melody often is played or sung in a quaint manner, but the artist here chooses to treat it as an extended experience related to its almost overwhelming words of the great English poet William Cowper (below).

Timothy has recorded this arrangement, with guitar and mountain dulcimers added, on his album for the Blue Ridge Parkway, Cleansing Fountain, available for audio samples here: http://timothyseaman.com/index.php/di....

Also, a detailed discussion of how this arrangement was developed is in Timothy's blog: http://timothyseaman.com/index.php/ti....

Text by William Cowper (pub. 1779), titled 'Praise for the Fountain Opened,' written after relief from his first battle with major depression:

There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins;
And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.
Lose all their guilty stains, lose all their guilty stains;
And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.

The dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day;
And there have I, though vile as he, washed all my sins away. ...

Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood shall never lose its power
Till all the ransomed church of God be saved, to sin no more. ...

E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply,
Redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die. ...

When this poor lisping, stammering tongue lies silent in the grave.
Then in a nobler, sweeter song, I'll sing Thy power to save. ...

Lord, I believe Thou hast prepared, unworthy though I be,
For me a blood bought free reward, a golden harp for me! ...

'Tis strung and tuned for endless years, and formed by power divine,
To sound in God the Father's ears no other name but Thine. ...

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