Won't It Be Wonderful There?

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When with the Savior we enter the glory land

Author: James Rowe (1930)
Tune: [When with the Savior we enter the Glory-land]
Published in 83 hymnals

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1 When with the Savior we enter the glory-land,
Won't it be wonderful there?
Ended the troubles and cares of the story-land,
Won't it be wonderful there?

Refrain:
Won't it be wonderful there,
Having no burdens to bear?
Joyously singing with heart-bells all ringing,
O won't it be wonderful there?

2 Walking and talking with Christ, the supernal ONe,
Won't it be wonderful there?
Praising, adoring the matchless eternal One,
Won't it be wonderful there? [Refrain]

3 There where the tempest will never be sweeping us,
Won't it be wonderful there?
Sure that forever the Lord will be keeping us,
Won't it be wonderful there? [Refrain]

Source: Melodies of Love #183

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Author: James Rowe

Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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First Line:	When with the Savior we enter the glory land
Title:	Won't It Be Wonderful There?
Author:	James Rowe (1930)
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Won't it be wonderful there
Copyright:	Public Domain