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Text:Salvation, O the joyful sound!
Author:Isaac Watts
Tune:PRIMROSE
Composer:Amzi Chapin

47a. Salvation, O the joyful sound!

1 Salvation, O the joyful sound,
’Tis pleasure to our ears;
A sov’reign balm for ev’ry wound,
A cordial for our fears.

2 Buried in sorrow and in sin,
At hell’s dark door we lay;
But we arise by grace divine
To see a heav’nly day.

3 Salvation! Let the echo fly
The spacious earth around;
While all the armies of the sky
Conspire to raise the sound.

Text Information
First Line: Salvation, O the joyful sound!
Author: Isaac Watts (1707)
Meter: C.M.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1991
Tune Information
Name: PRIMROSE
Composer: Amzi Chapin (1812)
Meter: C.M.
Key: A Major



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