Ye Gates, Lift Your Heads

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Ye gates, lift your heads, the glad summons obey

Tune: LANSING (Gabriel)
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1 Ye gates, lift your heads, the glad summons obey,
Ye doors everlasting, wide open the way.
The King of all glory high honors await,
The King of all glory shall enter in state.

2 What King of all glory is this that ye sing?
The Lord, strong and mighty, the conquering King.
Ye gates, lift your heads, and His summons obey,
Ye doors everlasting, wide open the way.

3 The King of all glory high honors await,
The King of all glory shall enter in state.
What King of all glory is this that ye sing?
Jehovah of Hosts, He of glory is King.

Source: Psalter Hymnal (Red): doctrinal standards and liturgy of the Christian Reformed Church #47

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First Line:	Ye gates, lift your heads, the glad summons obey
Title:	Ye Gates, Lift Your Heads
Meter:	11.11.11.11
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Psalm 24
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LANSING (Gabriel)

LANSING is one of several tunes by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) included in the 1912 Psalter, where it was set to the second part of Psalm 24, "Ye Gates Lift Your Heads." The tune title refers to the Illinois city just south of Chicago near which Gabriel…

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