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Text:We go the way that leads to God
Tune:GOING HOME
Composer:A. Roberts

91. We go the way that leads to God

1 We go the way that leads to God,
The way that saints have ever trod;
So let us leave this sinful shore,
For realms where we shall die no more.

Chorus:
We're going home, we're going home,
We're going home, to die no more;
To die no more, to die no more,
We're going home, to die no more.

2 The ways of God are ways of bliss,
And all his paths are happiness;
Then, weary souls, your sighs give o'er,
We're going home, to die no more. [Chorus]

3 Come, sinners, come, oh, come along,
And join our happy pilgrim throng!
Farewell, vain world, and all your store,
We're going home, to die no more. [Chorus]

Text Information
First Line: We go the way that leads to God
Refrain First Line: We're going home, we're going home
Publication Date: 1870
Notes: Now Public Domain. Tune for 289 in "American Sunday School Hymn Book" (ASS1860a)
Tune Information
Name: GOING HOME
Composer: A. Roberts
Key: G Major or modal
Notes: Public Domain.



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