The promised land (Matilda T. Durham)

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Editor: Crys Armbrust (submitted 2013-08-16).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 184 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Transcription of shaped note hymn. Original composition published in Southern Harmony 1835).

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Title: The Promised Land
Composer: Crys Armbrust
Lyricist: Samuel Stennett

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicings: SAB or SAA

Genre: Sacred, Shape Notes

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 2002

Description: 1878 text by Samuel Stennett and 1835 music by Miss M. Durham.

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Original text and translations

English text

On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand,
And cast a wishful eye
To Canaan’s fair and happy land,
Where my possessions lie.

Refrain:
I am bound for the promised land,
Oh who will come and go with me?

O’er all those wide extended plains
Shines one eternal day;
There God the Son forever reigns,
And scatters night away.
Refrain

When I shall reach that happy place,
I’ll be forever blest,
For I shall see my Father’s face,
And in his bosom rest.
Refrain