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Thread #26478   Message #319106
Posted By: Joe Offer
15-Oct-00 - 04:20 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Beautiful Hills of Galilee
Subject: Lyr Add: BEAUTIFUL HILLS OF GALILEE! ^^
Found it here (click) - it's on a Rounder CD called Hard-Hitting songs for Hard-Hit People, and also on a great Rounder gospel sampler CD called Stained Glass Hour.
-Joe Offer-

BEAUTIFUL HILLS OF GALILEE!

(traditional)
8s, 9s

T. B. Ausmus

O Beautiful hills of Galilee!
Amid whose scenes the Saviour dwells,
Your flow'rs that bloom so beautifully,
Of heaven's lasting beauties tell.

Refrain

We're travelling home; one by one,
Across death's river our friends are gone,
And we are following, one by one.

"Then, O poor soul, if you would be
Thus clothed in robes as pure as they,
Lay all else down, come follow me;
My love shall last through endless day."

My soul replies, "'Tis not for me,"
With tears fast streaming from mine eyes;
That voice still calls, "Come, follow me,
We're going home beyond the skies.

"I come your maladies to heal,
I left my Father's home on high;
His wondrous love I thus reveal
And thus are trembling souls brought nigh.

"I go away--I'll come again,
My Holy Spirit hov'ring round,
To show that for you I was slain,
And guard you till the trump shall sound.


Hazel Dickens sings the chorus this way:

We are traveling home, we are traveling home
One by one, we're traveling home.
Across death's river our friends have gone,
And we are following, one by one.
^^
Hey, what do these lines mean?

8s, 9s

T. B. Ausmus