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Thread #93368 Message #1798454
Posted By: Joe Offer
01-Aug-06 - 01:59 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: That Beautiful Homeland (from Larry Moses
Subject: RE: 'Oh that homeland, beautiful homeland'
Jean Ritchie didn't know this one, but she sent a note with information on a song with a related theme:
I never have heard of this song, "Beautiful Homeland." Sounds as though it came from a local poet and hasn't been published. The Old Regular Baptists have a similar one in their songbook, "There's a Beautiful Home Far Beyond the Skies," whose chorus says about the same thing:
In that beautiful land
Where the angels stand,
We shall meet, we shall meet,
We shall meet in that beautiful land.
A lovely song- but not the same as, "Beautiful Homeland." Sorry I cannot help.