1 There's a beautiful home, where no ages are known,
Just a long happy unending day;
'Tis the home of the soul, and I've made it my goal,
And rejoice in my Lord on the way.
Refrain:
To that home beautiful home,
Let me go when this life here is o'er,
O that home beautiful home
Let me go there and live evermore.
2 'Tis the home of the blest, where redeemed ones shall rest,
From their labors and trials for aye;
Blessed thought O how sweet, there the righteous we'll meet,
Praising God thro' an eternal day. [Refrain]
3 In that city we're told, all the streets are of gold,
And our faith will be changed into night;
There we'll look and behold all the grandeurs foretold,
In that city where cometh no night. [Refrain]
Source: The New Wonderful Songs for Work and Worship #72
Thomas S. Cobb (1876-1942), a native Texan, was educated in much the same circles as [Austin] Taylor, and received his music diploma from the Western Normal and College of Music in Dallas. He taught singing schools across Texas and the bordering states, and was particularly noted for the "Cobb Quartet" made up of his four daughters. He was recruited to Firm Foundation by Showalter in 1935.(Finley, 122ff.) Cobb edited only four hymnals for Firm Foundation before his death in 1942, but among these was the significant New Wonderful Songs (1933); at 296 hymns it was part of the trend toward more substantial publications.
Prior to his work with Firm Foundation, Cobb edited hymnals for the Quartet Music Company of Fort Worth, Texas. A search o… Go to person page >
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