Bubba, what are Achans?

Does your version have any more differences from the others that have been posted. Where is yours from? Can you send us a MIDI for posting, or a scan of the sheet music?


Thanks.

-Joe Offer-
joe@mudcat.org

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Here's a summary version, for submission to the Digital Tradition.

The Meeting in the Air
(Mae Taylor Roberts, 1925)

1. You have heard of little Moses in the bulrush,
   You have heard of fearless David and his sling;
   You have heard the story told of dreaming Joseph,
   And of Jonah and the whale you often sing.
   There are many, many others thro' the Bible -
   I should like to meet them all, I do declare!
   By and by the Lord will surely let us meet them
   At the meeting in the air.
   

   Chorus:
   There is going to be a meeting in the air,
   In the sweet, sweet by and by;
   I am going to meet you, meet you there
   In that home beyond the sky,
   Such singing you will hear, never heard by mortal ear -
   'Twill be glorious, I do declare!
   And God's own Son will be the leading One
   At the meeting in the air.

2. Many things will there be missing, in that meeting:
   For the mourners' bench will have no place at all;
   There will never be a sermon preached to sinners,
   For the sinner had refused to heed the call.
   There will be no mourning over wayward loved ones,
   There will be no lonely nights of pleading pray'r;
   All our burdens and our anguish will be lifted
   At the meeting in the air.
   
   
3. There the doubters will be missing altogether,
   All the skeptics will be absent on that day;
   There will be no grumblers present to disturb us,
   And the Achans will be busy far away.
   There the saints will have His "seal upon their foreheads,"
   Dressed in raiment none but ransomed ones can wear;
   All who have the wedding garments will be present
   At the meeting in the air.
   
   

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(this MIDI is available on a number of Websites - I can't recall the source or vouch for its accuracy, but it sounds like the song I know)