The Cyber Hymnal ‎#12141

12141. Who'll Be Sowing?

1 Who’ll be sowing, who’ll be sowing,
Sowing precious golden grain,
In the valley, on the hillside,
Wide across the fertile plain?

Refrain:
Who’ll be sowing, who’ll be sowing
Who’ll be sowing precious golden grain?
Sowing, reaping, sowing, reaping,
Sowing, reaping golden grain?

2 Who’ll be sowing seeds of kindness
Right and left along the way,
At the home hearth, by the sick couch,
Here and there, where’er we stray? [Refrain]

3 Who’ll be sowing deeds of mercy,
Sowing through life’s checkered vale,
Love and honor, virtue, goodness,
Mighty truth that must prevail? [Refrain]

4 May we all go sowing, reaping,
Only best of life’s fair yield,
So that at the final harvest
We may reap in Heav’n’s bright field. [Refrain]

Text Information

• First Line: Who’ll be sowing, who’ll be sowing
• Title: Who'll Be Sowing?
• Author: Noah Hugh Albaugh (1885)
• Refrain First Line: Who’ll be sowing, who’ll be sowin
• Language: English
• Source: Wayside Blossoms (Dayton, OH: Groneweg Brothers, 1885)
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: [Who’ll be sowing, who’ll be sowing]
• Composer: William Howard Doane
• Key: A♭ Major
• Source: The Glad Refrain (New York: Biglow & Main, 1886), number 1