10657. When We Get Home

1 When we get home to that beautiful land,
With its beautiful city of gold;
When we have passed o’er the river of death,
And are safe in the heavenly fold;
Wearisome toil, tribulation and care,
That burden our spirits today,
Like as a dream or a shadow shall pass—
Shall pass, unreturning, away.

Refrain:
When we get home, how sweet ’twill be!
When we get home, how sweet ’twill be!

2 When we get home from our wanderings here
To that clime where they wander no more;
When, with the loved that have passed into rest,
We shall stand with our harps on the shore;
Sorrow and strife, and our proneness to err,
The pain and the sickness we bear,
Like as a dream or a shadow shall pass,
And ne’er shall they trouble us there. [Refrain]

3 When we get home, and it will not be long,
Till we finish our journey below;
When we shall lose every cumbering weight,
And the sins that doth hinder us so;
Tears that we shed in our sorrowful hours,
The fears and the doubts that molest,
Like as a dream or a shadow shall pass,
And reach not the home of the blest. [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: When we get home to that beautiful land
Title: When We Get Home
Author: Eden Reeder Latta (1875)
Refrain First Line: When we get home, how sweet ’twill be!
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: [When we get home to that beautiful land]
Composer: William Oscar Perkins
Key: A♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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