A New Year's Greeting

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With joyful songs and happy cheer

Author: Lavinia E. Brauff
Tune: [With joyful songs and happy cheer]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 With joyful songs and happy cheer,
We gladly hail the bright New Year,
Our hearts are filled with grateful love
For all God’s blessings from above.

Refrain:
Thanks be to Him we love so dear,
For giving us this bright New Year,
To One and All in song we bear,
A New Year’s greeting every where.

2 All things renew their growth and worth
Touched by the hand that gave them birth
The hand, that freely doth provide
For living nations far and wide. [Refrain]

3 Let us renew our thoughts and deeds,
And plant afresh our little seeds,
Replenishing from God’s great store
The human heart forevermore. [Refrain]

4 Let every heart respond in praise,
And voices blend in grateful lays,
To God for His unchanging love
And for His blessings from above. [Refrain]

Source: Uplifted Voices: a 20th century hymn book for sunday-schools and devotional meetings #117

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Author: Lavinia E. Brauff

Lavinia E. Brauff was born in Pittsburgh 12 October, 1851. She was blind from infnacy. She was educated at the School for the Blind in Philadelphia. Her first hymn was published in 1894 to the music of H. P. Danks. 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:	With joyful songs and happy cheer
Title:	A New Year's Greeting
Author:	Lavinia E. Brauff
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Thanks be to Him we love so dear
Copyright:	Public Domain