Sacred Harp
SALEM C. M.
- Words:
- John Newton, 1779
- Music:
- “Dossey’s Choice” page 58
Sheet music
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer’s ear…
In the hymnals
- Written in 1779, the words are in 1,796 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.