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[What a song will rise on that bright, eternal morning]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Hamp Sewell Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 56165 56171 23212 Used With Text: When the Saints Are Gathered Home

When the Saints Are Gathered Home

Author: James Rowe Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: What a song will rise on that bright, eternal morning Lyrics: 1 What a song will rise on that bright, eternal morning, When the saints (When the saints) are gathered home! (gathered home!) Love divine will be ev'ry happy soul adorning, When the saints (When the saints) are gathered home! (gathered home!) Chorus: When the saints are gathered home, When we reach that sinless land and Jesus see, (Jesus see,) Oh, what happy songs will ring thro' the palace of the King, When the saints (When the saints) are gathered home! 2 With enraptured eyes we shall view the crystal river, When the saints (When the saints) are gathered home! (gathered home!) Near the great white throne we shall live and sing forever, When the saints (When the saints) are gathered home. [Chorus] 3 On the streets of gold we shall tell and sing the story, When the saints (When the saints) are gathered home! (gathered home!) O, celestial skies all will ring with shouts of glory, When the saints (When the saints) are gathered home. [Chorus] Used With Tune: [What a song will rise on that bright, eternal morning]

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When the Saints Are Gathered Home

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: The New Praiseworthy #136 (1916) First Line: What a song will rise on that bright, eternal morning Lyrics: 1 What a song will rise on that bright, eternal morning, When the saints (When the saints) are gathered home! (gathered home!) Love divine will be ev'ry happy soul adorning, When the saints (When the saints) are gathered home! (gathered home!) Chorus: When the saints are gathered home, When we reach that sinless land and Jesus see, (Jesus see,) Oh, what happy songs will ring thro' the palace of the King, When the saints (When the saints) are gathered home! 2 With enraptured eyes we shall view the crystal river, When the saints (When the saints) are gathered home! (gathered home!) Near the great white throne we shall live and sing forever, When the saints (When the saints) are gathered home. [Chorus] 3 On the streets of gold we shall tell and sing the story, When the saints (When the saints) are gathered home! (gathered home!) O, celestial skies all will ring with shouts of glory, When the saints (When the saints) are gathered home. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [What a song will rise on that bright, eternal morning]

When the Saints are Gathered Home

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Hymns of Glory No. 2 #26 (1914) First Line: What a song will rise on that bright, eternal morning Languages: English Tune Title: [What a song will rise on that bright, eternal morning]

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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Author of "When the Saints Are Gathered Home" in The New Praiseworthy Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)