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Once More

Once more with joy and gladness

Author: Mrs. R. N. Turner
Tune: [Once more with joy and gladness]
Published in 4 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Once more with joy and gladness
Our grateful songs we sing!
These happy hours we welcome,
With all the joy they bring;
Dear mem’ries sweetly linger
Of other times and days,
And ev’ry word of greeting
Some tender thought conveys.

Refrain:
We come, we come,
Once more we gladly meet,
We come, we come,
Our joyful songs repeat;
We come, we come,
With heart, and soul, and voice,
To sing the praise of Christ our King,
To worship and rejoice.

2 The loving Friend above us
Our ways hath gently led,
And with his smile upon us
The golden year hath sped;
To him who thus so kindly
Hath helped us ev’ry day,
We offer our devotion,
And grateful homage pay. [Refrain]

3 Still lead us, heavenly Father,
And fill us with thy love,
Till we at last shall gather
In thy blest home above;
And now, with glad rejoicing,
The songs we love we’ll sing,
And happy notes of greeting
Shall with its echo ring. [Refrain]

Source: Showers of Blessing #126

Author: Mrs. R. N. Turner

Fronie Bell Turner, married to Rev. R. N. Turner, pastor in the Protestant Episcopal Church. Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Once more with joy and gladness
Title: Once More
Author: Mrs. R. N. Turner
Language: English
Refrain First Line: We come, we come, once more we gladly meet
Copyright: Public Domain

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Sacred Trio #434

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Showers of Blessing #126

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The Emory Hymnal No. 2 #126

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The Sacred Trio #434

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