Merrily sing your song

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Merrily sing your song

Author: Haldor Lillenas
Tune: [Merrily sing your song]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 Merrily sing your song, helping the world along,
Fill the lonely hearts with cheer;
Making the pathway bright, shedding the gospel light,
Banishing ev’ry doubt and fear.

Refrain:
Sing, merrily sing,
Sing the songs of the gospel light,
Sing, merrily sing,
Fill the world with its message bright;
Sing, merrily sing,
Till the echoes return the song,
And the world is lifted above its gloom
And the heart made strong.

2 Merrily sing your song, cheering the weary throng,
Marching in life’s rugged road;
Sing of the love of God, sing of the precious blood,
Sing of the one who lifts the load. [Refrain]

3 Merrily sing your song, shorten the days so long,
Sing of Christ and heav’n above;
Shadows will flee away, darkness will turn to day,
As you extol the God of love. [Refrain]

Source: Glad Tidings in Song #57

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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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