Some day the light of earth shall fade away

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Some day the light of earth shall fade away

Author: Haldor Lillenas
Tune: [Some day the light of earth shall fade away]
Published in 8 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 Some day the light of earth shall fade away,
And I at last shall cease to roam;
Then burdens I have borne I down shall lay;
Some golden daybreak in my home, sweet home.

Chorus:
Some golden daybreak, some golden daybreak
I shall ever cease to roam;
Some golden daybreak, some golden daybreak
I shall reach my home, sweet home.

2 That golden daybreak I can almost see,
A veil but thinly intervenes;
Soon at the gates eternal I shall be
To gaze upon those fair, celestial scenes. [Chorus]

3 The hills of Paradise with purple gleam,
The zephyrs every softly play,
And all is fairer than the fairest dreams
When breaks at last that eternal day. [Chorus]

Source: Inspiring Gospel Solos and Duets No. 1 #36

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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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