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Thread #26478   Message #319111
Posted By: Joe Offer
15-Oct-00 - 04:37 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Beautiful Hills of Galilee
Subject: Lyr Add: BEAUTIFUL HILLS OF GALILEE!^^
Well, let me transcribe it from the Hazel dickens recording. Apparently, it's from an "Old Baptist" hymnal. The only recording listed is the one by Dickens. It's a good one.
-Joe Offer-

Beautiful Hills of Galilee!

(traditional)
8s, 9s

T. B. Ausmus

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

Refrain
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.
"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 will last eternally."

"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.


JRO^^
by the way, I was in Galilee in November of 1999, and the hills were indeed beautiful. I don't think I'll ever forget watching the sun rise over the Golan Heights and sparkle on the Sea of Galilee.