Junior Songs ‎#102

102. Keep Your Colors Flying

1 Keep your colors flying,
All ye Christian youth.
To Christ's call replying,
Full of grace and truth;
Rise in strength and beauty
In life's morning glow,
Answer to each duty,
Onward, upward go.

Chorus:
Keep your colors flying,
Stand for God and truth!
Keep your colors flying,
All ye Christian youth!

2 Life is all before you,
Where to choose your way,
Keep Christ's colors o'er you,
Watch and fight and pray;
With a firm endeavor
Ev'ry foe defy,
True to Jesus ever,
Lift your colors high. [Chorus]

3 Keep your colors flying,
Never think of ease,
Sin and self denying,
Jesus only please;
Not for worldly pleasure,
Not for worldly fame,
Not for heaps of treasure,
Live for Jesus' name. [Chorus]

4 Keep your colors flying,
Walk as Jesus did,
In him loving, dying,
Let your life be hid;
Hoping, trusting ever,
Breathe this mortal breath
You shall live forever,
Christ has conquered death. [Chorus]

Text Information

• First Line: Keep your colors flying
• Title: Keep Your Colors Flying
• Author: Rev. J. E. Rankin, D. D.
• Refrain First Line: Keep your colors flying
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1892
• Scripture:
  Jeremiah 51:27
• Copyright: Copyright, 1891, by E. S. Lorenz

Tune Information

• Name: [Keep your colors flying]
• Composer: Rev. E. S. Lorenz. By per
• Key: A♭ Major