6210 | The Cyber Hymnal#6211 | 6212 |
Text: | A Song of Heaven and Homeland |
Author: | Eben E. Rexford, 1848-1916 |
Tune: | [Sometimes I hear strange music] |
Composer: | Ira David Sankey, 1840-1908 |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. Sometimes I hear strange music,
Like none e’er heard before,
Come floating softly earthward
As thro’ Heav’n’s open door:
It seems like angel voices,
In strains of joy and love,
That swell the mighty chorus
Around the throne above.
Refrain
O sweet, celestial music,
Heard from a land afar—
The song of Heav’n and Homeland,
Thro’ doors God leaves ajar!
2. Now soft, and low, and restful,
It floods my soul with peace,
As if God’s benediction
Bade all earth’s troubles cease.
Then, grander than the voices
Of wind, and wave, and sea—
It fills the dome of Heaven
With glorious harmony. [Refrain]
3. This music haunts me ever,
Like something heard in dreams—
It seems to catch the cadence
Of heav’nly winds and streams.
My heart is filled with rapture,
To think, some day to come,
I’ll sing it with the angels—
The song of Heav’n and home. [Refrain]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Sometimes I hear strange music |
Title: | A Song of Heaven and Homeland |
Author: | Eben E. Rexford, 1848-1916 |
Refrain First Line: | O sweet, celestial music |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | In the year 1901 Mr. Eben Rexford, editor of the Ladies’ Home Journal landscape and gardening department, wrote me, asking a donation of fifty copies of Gospel Hymns for a poor church, saying he would give me twenty new hymns in exchange. I sent the books and received the hymns, among which I found A Song of Heaven and Homeland, which I soon set to music, and which I consider one of my best compositions. It was first published in the Ladies’ Home Journal. Sankey, p. 319 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | [Sometimes I hear strange music] |
Composer: | Ira David Sankey, 1840-1908 |
Incipit: | 55671 31114 12334 |
Key: | F Major |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Media | |
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Adobe Acrobat image: | Adobe Acrobat image (Cyber Hymnal) |
MIDI file: | MIDI File (Cyber Hymnal) |
Noteworthy Composer score: | Noteworthy Composer score (Cyber Hymnal) |
XML score: | XML score |