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Now Shall My Inward Joy Arise - Ensemble Companio
Joseph Gregoria, Director
Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Bayonne, New Jersey
Isaiah 49:13; Psalm 18:20-26
13Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for Jehovah hath comforted his people, and will have compassion upon his afflicted.
20Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness;
According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

Isaac Watts 1835
or
http://youtu.be/YZrO3P7AQOQ  DONE
Texas Sacred Harp Singers

Now shall my inward joys arise,
And burst into a song;
Almighty love inspires my heart,
And pleasure tunes my tongue.

God, on His thirsty Zion’s hill,
Some mercy drops has thrown;
And solemn oaths have bound His love
To show’r salvation down.

Why do we then indulge our fears,
Suspicions and complaints?
Is He a God, and shall His grace
Grow weary of His saints?

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Can a kind woman e'er forget
The infant of her womb?
And 'mongst a thousand tender thoughts
Her suckling have no room?

"Yet," saith the Lord, "should nature change,
And mothers monsters prove,
Zion still dwells upon the heart
Of everlasting love.

"Deep on the palms of both my hands
I have engraved her name;
My hands shall raise her ruined walls,
And build her broken frame?"
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Rocky Road
http://youtu.be/dTGpyzJUCNI
I’ve a Father on the road,
He’s almost done traveling,
A Father on the road.
He’s bound to go where Jesus is,
His soul shall ascend where Jesus is,
To enjoy the peaceful home of rest.
He’s bound to go where Jesus is,
And be there forever blest.

It’s a mighty rocky road,
He's almost done traveling,
A mighty rocky road,
He's bound to go where Jesus is.

I've a Mother on the road...

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Hallelujah
The Alabama Sacred Harp Convention

And let this feeble body fail,
And let it faint or die;
My soul shall quit this mournful vale,
And soar to worlds on high,

Chorus:

And I’ll sing hallelujah,
And you’ll sing hallelujah,
And we’ll all sing hallelujah,
When we arrive at home.

Shall join the disembodied saints,
And find its long-sought rest,
The only bliss for which it pants,
In my Redeemer’s breast.

(Chorus)

Oh what are all my suff’rings here,
If, Lord, Thou count me meet
With that enraptured host t’appear,
And worship at Thy feet!

(Chorus)

Give joy or grief, give ease or pain,
Take life or friends away,
But let me find them all again,
In that eternal day.

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Sacred Harp 128 The Promised Land
http://youtu.be/QAD9u0VTZVM

On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand,
And cast a wishful eye,
To Canaan’s fair and happy land,
Where my possessions lie.

Chorus:

I am bound for the promised land,
I am bound for the promised land,
Oh, who will come and go with me,
I am bound for the promised land.

Oh, the transporting, rapt’rous scene,
That rises to my sight,
Sweet fields arrayed in living green,
And rivers of delight.

(Chorus)

Filled with delight, my raptured soul
Would here no longer stay!
Though Jordan’s waves around me roll,
Fearless I’d launch away.

(Chorus)