Text: | On Jordan’s Stormy Banks I Stand |
Author: | Samuel Stennett |
Tune: | BOUND FOR THE PROMISED LAND |
Harmonizer: | J. Harold Moyer |
1 On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand,
and cast a wishful eye
to Canaan’s fair and happy land,
where my possessions lie.
Refrain:
I’m bound for the promised land,
I’m bound for the promised land.
Oh, who will come and go with me?
I’m bound for the promised land.
2 There gen’rous fruits that never fail
on trees immortal grow.
There rocks and hills and brooks and vales
with milk and honey flow. [Refrain]
3 All o’er those wide extended plains
shines one eternal day.
There God the sun forever reigns,
and scatters night away. [Refrain]
4 Filled with delight, my raptured soul
can here no longer stay.
Though Jordan’s waves around me roll,
fearless I’d launch away. [Refrain]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand |
Title: | On Jordan’s Stormy Banks I Stand |
Author: | Samuel Stennett |
Refrain First Line: | I’m bound for the promised land |
Meter: | CM with refrain |
Publication Date: | 2020 |
Scripture: | ; |
Topic: | Funeral / Memorial Service; Heaven; Hope |
Source: | A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors, 1787 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | BOUND FOR THE PROMISED LAND |
Harmonizer: | J. Harold Moyer (1965) |
Meter: | CM with refrain |
Key: | e minor |
Source: | American traditional (USA), Southern Harmony, 1835; harm. J. Harold Moyer (USA), The Mennonite Hymnal, 1965 |
Copyright: | harm. © 1969 Faith & Life Press/Mennonite Publishing House |