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Text: | Going home |
Tune: | GOING HOME |
Composer: | A. D. Fillmore |
1 Jerusalem, my happy home,
O how I long for thee!
When will my sorrows have an end,
The joys when shall I see?
Chorus:
We're going home, we're going home,
We're going home to live forever.
2 Thy walls are all of precious stones,
Most glorious to behold;
Thy gates are richly set with pearl,
Thy streets are paved with gold. [Chorus]
3 Thy gardens and thy pleasant greens
My study long have been;
Such sparkling gems by human sight
Have never yet been seen. [Chorus]
4 If heaven be thus glorious, Lord,
Why should I stay from thence?
What folly 'tis that I should dread
To die and go from hence! [Chorus]
5 When we've been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We've not less days to sing God's praise,
Then when we first begun. [Chorus]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Jerusalem, my happy home |
Title: | Going home |
Refrain First Line: | We're going home, we're going home |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1867 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | GOING HOME |
Composer: | A. D. Fillmore |
Meter: | C. M. |
Key: | A Major |