Lyr Add: Ivory Palaces

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ivory Palaces
From: Burke
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 08:52 PM

I have this in a hymnal if you're looking for the music. I look forward to your story. To me it's one of the ultimate overwrought gospel songs, but maybe it's really suffered from overuse.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ivory Palaces
From: IvanB
Date: 24 Jun 01 - 11:09 PM

Susan, this one has wonderful harmony, I used to do it when I was still a boy alto, many moons ago...

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Ivory Palaces
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Jun 01 - 09:42 PM

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Subject: Ivory Palaces
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Jun 01 - 09:40 PM

Hope to have chords for this in a day or two, and then I'll say why I'm posting this one.

~S~


IVORY PALACES
Words & Music: Henry Barraclough, 1915


My Lord has garments so wondrous fine,
And myrrh their texture fills;
Its fragrance reached to this heart of mine
With joy my being thrills.

Refrain:
Out of the ivory palaces,
Into a world of woe,
Only His great eternal love
Made my Savior go.

His life had also its sorrows sore,
For aloes had a part;
And when I think of the cross He bore,
My eyes with teardrops start.

His garments too were in cassia dipped,
With healing in a touch;
Each time my feet in some sin have slipped,
He took me from its clutch.

In garments glorious He will come,
To open wide the door;
And I shall enter my heav'nly home,
To dwell forevermore.


SOURCE: CyberHymnal, which states:
"The words are based on a sermon Barraclough heard delivered by John Chapman in 1915 at Montreat, North Carolina; in 1893, Chapman had written a book called Ivory Palaces of the King.

SH