Music up there

Some fair morn I shall stand

Author: Thoro Harris
Tune: [Some fair morn I shall stand]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 Some fair morn I shall stand
On that beautiful strand
In the shade of the life-giving tree;
By life’s river so fair
I shall meet over there
Many dear ones now waiting for me.

Refrain:
Yes, there’s music up there
In yon city so fair
Free from sorrow, temptation and pain;
O what rapture ‘twill be
Our Redeemer to see
And the dear ones in glory again!

2 Soon the cross I’ll lay down
For a glorious crown
When I come to the end of the road;
There to join in the song
Of the angelic throng
In that beautiful garden of God. [Refrain]

3 In that city of gold
‘Twill be joy to behold
Many friends who have lighten’d my way
Up the steep, rugged height
To those mansions of light
In that land of perennial day. [Refrain]

Source: Songs of Summerland #119

Author: Thoro Harris

Born: March 31, 1874, Washington, DC. Died: March 27, 1955, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Buried: International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. After attending college in Battle Creek, Michigan, Harris produced his first hymnal in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois at the invitation of Peter Bilhorn, and in 1932, to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He composed and compiled a number of works, and was well known locally as he walked around with a canvas bag full of handbooks for sale. His works include: Light and Life Songs, with William Olmstead & William Kirkpatrick (Chicago, Illinois: S. K. J. Chesbro, 1904) Little Branches, with George J. Meyer & Howard E. Smith (Chicago, Illi… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Some fair morn I shall stand
Title: Music up there
Author: Thoro Harris
Refrain First Line: Yes, there's music

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Songs of Summerland #119

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