Up and Be Doing

Up and be doing, brief is the day

Author: Luella Clark
Tune: [Up and be doing]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Up and be doing!
Brief is the day;
Soon comes the nighttime
Light all away—
“Work in my vineyard!”
Hark to the call
Which the Good Master
Giveth to all.

Refrain:
Go work in my vineyard,
Go work in my vineyard,
And gather the harvest,
Ere darkness shall fall.

2 Fields now are waiting
White in the sun;
Harvests all ripen’d,
What hast thou done?
Few are the reapers,
Much to be done,
Where is they sickle,
Fast falls the sun. [Refrain]

3 Soon daylight dieth
Labor is o’er!
Long are the shadows
Stretching before.
Rouse careless idler!
“Nothing but leaves?”
What will thou answer
When asked for sheaves? [Refrain]

Source: Triumphant Songs No.4 #164

Author: Luella Clark

19th Century Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Up and be doing, brief is the day
Title: Up and Be Doing
Author: Luella Clark
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Go work in my vineyard
Copyright: Public Domain

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Triumphant Songs No.4 #164

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Triumphant Songs Nos. 3 and 4 Combined #331

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