Text: | The Promised Land |
Author: | Samuel Stennett |
Tune: | PROMISED LAND |
Arranger: | Rigdon M. McIntosh |
Composer: | Matilda T. Durham |
1. 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,
I am bound for the Promised Land.
Oh, who will come and go with me?
I am bound for the Promised Land.
2. All o'er those wise, extended plains
Shines one eternal day;
There God the Sun forever reigns
And scatters night away. [Refrain]
3. No chilling winds, nor pois'nous breath
Can reach that healthful shore;
Sickness, and sorrow, pain, and death
Are felt and feared no more. [Refrain]
4. When shall I reach that happy place
And be forever blest?
When shall I see my Father's face
And in his bosom rest? [Refrain]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | On Jordan's stormy banks I stand |
Title: | The Promised Land |
Author: | Samuel Stennett (1787) |
Meter: | 8.6.8.6 with refrain |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2024 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Ordinary Time: Week 26 |
Notes: | Text by Baptist pastor Samuel Stennett, from John Rippon’s Selection of Hymns (1787). |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | PROMISED LAND |
Composer: | Matilda T. Durham (1835) |
Arranger: | Rigdon M. McIntosh (1874) |
Meter: | 8.6.8.6 with refrain |
Incipit: | 12333 45444 32 |
Key: | F Major or modal |
Notes: | Tune PROMISED LAND by Matilda T. Durham, from Southern Harmony (1835), alt. and arr. by Rigdon M. McIntosh in A Collection of Hymns and Tunes for Public, Social, and Domestic Worship (1874) |