1842 TEMPERANCE. Broadside for John Pierpont's Water Cure / Temperance Hymn, We Sing the Praise of Water. Americana It was written by a

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1842 TEMPERANCE. Broadside for John Pierpont's Water Cure / Temperance Hymn, We Sing the Praise of Water. Americana It was written by aVery early handbill broadside of John Pierpont's 1842 hymn to water, We Sing the Praise of Water. Originally published in The Cold Water Melodies, and Washington Songster [1842], a temperance work compiled by Pierpont, the song was designed to promote both the consumption of water as an alternative to alcohol, and the health benefits of water more generally [i. e. the water cure movement]. The broadside handbill version of it offered here, given