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Happy Christian children are we

Author: Haldor Lillenas
Tune: [Happy Christian children are we]
Published in 3 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Happy Christian children are we,
Joyous as the birds and free;
For we love the Master’s name,
Love to spread His wondrous fame.

Chorus:
Happy, happy Christian children,
Living for the Master here;
And we love to tell of all His goodness,
Sing His praises far and near.

2 Happy Christian children are we,
Sorrowful we cannot be;
For our sins are washed away,
And our burdens down we lay. [Chorus]

3 Happy Christian children are we,
To our God we bend the knee;
For us all He will provide,
Nothing good is us denied. [Chorus]

Source: Light and Life Songs No. 2 #191

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Author: Haldor Lillenas

Rv Haldor Lillenas DMus Norway/USA 1885-1959. Born at Stord, near Bergen, Norway, his father sold their 15 acre farm in Norway and emigrated to the U.S., buying a farm in Colton, SD. After he built a sod house, the family (wife and three chldren) also came to SD in 1887. They moved to Astoria, Oregon in 1889, where Lillenas learned English and began writing song lyrics at an early age. In 1900 the family moved again to Roseville, MN, where he worked as a farm laborer and began attending a Lutheran high school at Hawick, MN. He sold a few songs at age 19. At age 21 he began writing more songs, encouraged by some earlier ones becoming popular (“He set me free” was one). His mother died in 1906 and his father returned to ND, but Li… Go to person page >

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