$ Babylon Is Fallen:  Shaped Note Hymn   $
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$ Shaped note hymns date from Colonial America;  itinerant singing masters  $
$ traveled circuits of villages and towns, teaching classes for a month  $
$ or so at each from a system of shaped notes, various geometric shapes  $
$ representing different lengths of note.  $
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$                            BABYLON  $
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$               Hail the day so long expected,   $
$               Hail the year of full release  $
$               Zion's walls are now erected  $
$               And her watchmen publish peace  $
$               Through our Shiloh's wide dominion  $
$               Hear the trumpets loudly roar...  $
$               Babylon is fallen, is fallen, is fallen  $
$               Babylon is fallen, to rise no more  $
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