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Thread #107323   Message #2224246
Posted By: Azizi
29-Dec-07 - 09:07 AM
Thread Name: Biblical Place Names Songs
Subject: RE: Biblical Place Names Songs
Unfortunately, I did not know the song "Run, Come See Jerusalem" before reading about it in those Mudcat threads.

However, reading about "Run, Come See Jerusalem, made me think about this song that I recall learning when I was a child attending Union Baptist Temple church in Atlantic City, New Jersey:

The Holy City
[Music by Mi­chael May­brick
Original lyrics by Frederick E. Weatherly - 1892]

Last night I lay a-sleeping, there came a dream so fair,
I stood in old Jerusalem beside the temple there.
I heard the children singing and ever as they sang,
Me thought the voice of angels from heaven in answer rang.
Me thought the voice of angels from heaven in answer rang.

Refrain
Jerusalem! Jerusalem!
Lift up your gates and sing,
Hosanna in the highest!
Hosanna to your King!
And then me thought my dream was changed, the streets no longer rang,
Hushed were the glad Hosannas the little children sang.
The sun grew dark with mystery, the morn was cold and chill,
As the shadow of a cross arose upon a lonely hill.
As the shadow of a cross arose upon a lonely hill.

Refrain
Jerusalem! Jerusalem!
Lift up your gates and sing,
Hosanna in the highest!
Hosanna to your King!
And once again the scene was changed; new earth there seemed to be;
I saw the Holy City beside the tideless sea;
The light of God was on its streets, the gates were open wide,
And all who would might enter and no one was denied.
No need of moon or stars by night, or sun to shine by day;
It was the new Jerusalem that would not pass away.
It was the new Jerusalem that would not pass away.

Refrain
Jerusalem! Jerusalem!
Lift up your gates and sing,
Hosanna in the highest!
Hosanna to your King!
Hosanna in the highest!
Hosanna to your King!