Who Will Volunteer?

Top Media Text Author Text Info Tune Timeline Page Scans Instances

Who will volunteer? See the foe is near!

Author: Flora Kirkland
Tune: [Who will volunteer? See the foe is near]
Published in 6 hymnals

Printable scores: PDF, MusicXML
Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Who will volunteer? See the foe is near!
Someone now must fight and the vict’ry win!
Who will heed the call, sounding now to all?
“Fight the fight of faith” with the hosts of sin!

Refrain:
We will volunteer! We will volunteer!
In the strength of Christ our King;
Battling for the right, we will ever fight,
Till the shouts of vict’ry ring!

2 Who will volunteer? Ever loud and clear
Sounds the Master’s charge for the lands afar.
None are drafted here! Who will volunteer?
Who will spread the news of the Morning Star? [Refrain]

3 Who will volunteer? Christ, your King, is near,
He His wondrous grace for each need supplies.
Bravely meet the foe; onward, upward go!
Rich reward awaits you beyond the skies! [Refrain]

Timeless Truths

All representative texts • Compare texts • Text size: Regular | Large ^ top

Author: Flora Kirkland

Flora Kirkland was born in 1862 in Kentucky, before moving to Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from school she became a public school teacher for the seventh grade. She was a member of Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church for which she wrote a number of hymns. She was very active in the Wallabout Bay Mission in that neighborhood of Brooklyn. Most of Wallabout Bay would be filled in to make way for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She died 17 January 1911. Brooklyn Standard Union, 16 January 1911 Go to person page >

^ top

First Line:	Who will volunteer? See the foe is near!
Title:	Who Will Volunteer?
Author:	Flora Kirkland
Meter:	10.10.10.10.10.8.10.8
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	We will volunteer
Copyright:	Public Domain