Hallelujah! My Sins Are Gone

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I'm rejoicing today, As I go on my way

Author: Haldor Lillenas
Tune: [I'm rejoicing today] (Lillenas)
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 I’m rejoicing today
As I go on my way,
Hallelujah! my sins are gone;
Waves of joy o’er me roll,
Peace is flooding my soul,
Hallelujah! my sins are gone.

Chorus:
Hallelujah! my sins are gone,
Hallelujah! my sins are gone;
For the cleansing stream, I know,
Makes me whiter than the snow;
Hallelujah! my sins are gone.

2 Night has vanished away,
Mine a glorious day,
Hallelujah! my sins are gone;
Condemnation no more,
Burdens me as before,
Hallelujah! my sins are gone. [Chorus]

3 Ev’ry soul-binding chain
has been broken in twain,
Hallelujah! my sins are gone;
Grace abounding is mine,
What a glory divine!
Hallelujah! my sins are gone. [Chorus]

Source: Great Tabernacle Hymns #62

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Author: Haldor Lillenas

Rv Haldor Lillenas DMus Norway/USA 1885-1959. Born at Stord, near Bergen, Norway, his father sold their 15 acre farm in Norway and emigrated to the U.S., buying a farm in Colton, SD. After he built a sod house, the family (wife and three chldren) also came to SD in 1887. They moved to Astoria, Oregon in 1889, where Lillenas learned English and began writing song lyrics at an early age. In 1900 the family moved again to Roseville, MN, where he worked as a farm laborer and began attending a Lutheran high school at Hawick, MN. He sold a few songs at age 19. At age 21 he began writing more songs, encouraged by some earlier ones becoming popular (“He set me free” was one). His mother died in 1906 and his father returned to ND, but Li… Go to person page >

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First Line:	I'm rejoicing today, As I go on my way
Title:	Hallelujah! My Sins Are Gone
Author:	Haldor Lillenas
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Hallelujah! my sins are gone
Publication Date:	1916
Copyright:	Public Domain