Lyr Add: 'Homeward Bound' Mariner's Hymn; 186

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Homeward Bound' Mariner's Hymn; 186
From: Charley Noble
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 09:52 AM

Uncle Jacque-

What tune do you use? I'm not sure how the "We're home at last; home at last!" part goes.

You'll have to attend one of our shanty swaps again. How about planning to join us in Portsmouth on May 15th? I can pick you up at 40 Salem St. at 2 pm sharp.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Homeward Bound' Mariner's Hymn; 186
From: masato sakurai
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 05:30 AM

"Homeward Bound" [words only] is in A Collection of Sabbath School Hymns. Compiled by a Sabbath School Teacher, for the Benefit of the Children in the Confederate States [Electronic Edition at Documenting the American South] (RALEIGH: RALEIGH REGISTER STEAM-POWER PRESS, 1863, p. 15).

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Homeward Bound' Mariner's Hymn; 186
From: masato sakurai
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 04:28 AM

There are two hymnals containing this hymn at the Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection.

(1) Hymnal: Fillmore's Christian Psaltery.
    A D Fillmore and Robert Skene.
    [1867] R W Carroll & Co.
Hymn Title: no title given
First Line: Out on an ocean all boundless we ride
Topic: no topic given
Writer: no writer given
Composer: Fillmore, A
Meter: 10 & 5s
Tune: Homeward Bound
Hymn Number: no hymn number given
Page Number: 349 [Note: link given is to page 348]

(2) Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion.
    A D Fillmore.
    [1867] R W Carroll & Co.
Hymn Title: no title given
First Line: Out on an ocean all boundless we ride
Topic: no topic given
Writer: no writer given
Composer: Fillmore, A
Meter: 10s & 5s
Tune: Homeward Bound
Hymn Number: no hymn number given
Page Number: 259

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Homeward Bound' Mariner's Hymn; 186
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 18 Apr 04 - 04:11 PM

I should have looked at your link, MMario. But I don't like Sweet Betsy or Villikens for it.

Subject: Lyr Add: HOMEWARD BOUND (Warren, Harrington)
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 18 Apr 04 - 04:02 PM

Lyr. Add: HOMEWARD BOUND
W. F. Warren, music C. F. Harrington

Out on an ocean all boundless we ride,
We're homeward bound, homeward bound;
Tossed on the waves of a rough restless tide,
We're homeward bound, homeward bound;
Far from the safe, quiet harbour we rode,
Seeking our Father's celestial abode,
Promise of which on us each he bestowed;
We're homeward bound, homeward bound.

Wildly the storm sweeps us on as it roars,
We're homeward bound, homeward bound;
Look, yonder lie the bright heavenly shores,
We're homeward bound, homeward bound;
Steady, oh pilot, stand firm at the wheel,
Steady, we soon shall outweather the gale:
Oh, how we fly 'neath the loud creaking sail,
We're homeward bound, homeward bound.

Into the harbour of heaven now we glide,
We're home at last, home at last;
Softly we drift on its soft silver tide,
We're home at last, home at last,
Glory to God, all our dangers are o'er;
We stand secure on the glorified shore;
Glory to God, we will shout evermore;
We're homeward bound, homeward bound.

A glorious melody to this hymn; hear midi at Cyberhymnal.
Homeward Bound
Popular during the Civil War era on both sides of the conflict, printed on broadsheets by Thomas G. Doyle, Baltimore, and others (see American Memory, Civil War Song Sheets).

First verse the same as that posted by Uncle Jacque, but his other verses are quite different.
"Words by Rev. W. F. Warren, before 1863." Music C (Calvin?) S. Harrington (Cyberhymnal).

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Homeward Bound' Mariner's Hymn; 186
From: MMario
Date: 28 Jan 01 - 01:17 PM

Homeward Bound

The tune is villikins and his dinah - or Sweet Betsy from Pike...

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Homeward Bound' Mariner's Hymn; 186
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 28 Jan 01 - 07:00 AM

Uncle Jacque, do you have the music for that? I would LOVE to get my hands on it! Can you work something out for a fellow New Englander?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'Homeward Bound' Mariner's Hymn; 186
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Jan 01 - 01:23 AM

AW...

Subject: Lyr Add: HOMEWARD BOUND
From: GUEST,Uncle Jaque - Maine
Date: 28 Jan 01 - 12:20 AM

Just checked Digitrad DB: There's 2 by this title, but not the same one!

This song found in a Hymnal dated 1864 issued by the Portland (ME) Seaman's Bethel (Chapel), presumadly to a Sailor. I have sung it at memorial services, and it seems to be appropriate & well recieved.

"HOMEWARD BOUND"
Lyrics
From: "Songs of Zion", American Tract Soc., 1864

1.
Out on an ocean all boundless we ride,
We're homeward bound, homeward bound.
Tossed on the waves of a rough, restless tide,
We're homeward bound, homeward bound.
Far from the safe quiet harbor we've rode,
Seeking our Father's celestial abode,
Promise of which on us each he bestowed;
We're homeward bound, homeward bound.

2.
Wildly, the storm sweeps us on as it roars,
We're homeward bound, homeward bound.
Look, yonder lie the bright heavenly shores,
We're homeward bound, homeward bound.
Steady, O pilot, stand firm at the wheel;
Steady, we soon shall outweather the gale;
Oh how we fly 'neath the loud creaking sail:
We're homeward bound, homeward bound.

3.
We'll tell the world as we journey along,
We're homeward bound, homeward bound.
Try to persuade them to enter our throng,
We're homeward bound, homeward bound.
Come trembling sinner, forlorn and opprest,
Join in our number, Oh come and be blest;
Journey with us to the mansions of rest:
We're homeward bound, homeward bound.

4.
Into the harbor of heaven we glide,
We're home at last; home at last!
Softly we drift on its bright silver tide,
We're home at last; home at last!
Glory to God, all our dangers are o'er;
We stand secure on the glorified shore:
"Glory to God" we will shout evermore;
We're home at last; home at last.

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Line breaks added. --JoeClone