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AcaDisc #165- Sing With Feeling: Volume 1 by The Sounds of Glory
Original Release: ~1990
Available through The Sounds of
Glory
Members: Lanier Stevens -
Bass
Brad
Davis - Baritone and
Utility
Dan Stevens - Baritone and
Lead
Dale
Underwood - 2nd Tenor and
Lead
Charles
Davis - 1st Tenor
All the Way My Savior Leads
Me
Let the Lower Lights Be
Burning
I Will Sing of My
Redeemer
Tomorrow
Will Be Better
No Tears in
Heaven
Be With Me Lord
I'll Be a Friend to Jesus
Can He Depend on You?
Someone Will Welcome Me
Safe in the Arms of Jesus
Count Your Blessings
Sweet By and By
I'll Fly Away
Beyond the Sunset
He is Near
What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Hilltops of Glory
Amazing Grace
Turn Your Radio On
Take My Hand, Precious Lord
Rock of Ages
Did You Repent, Fully Repent?
Almost Persuaded
Mansion Over the Hilltop
All the Way My Savior Leads Me
Words: Fanny Crosby (1875)
Music: Robert Lowry
Lead: None
Lyrics:
All the way my Savior leads me
What have I to ask beside?
Can I
doubt His tender mercy
Who through life has been my Guide?
Heav’nly
peace, divinest comfort
Here by faith in Him to dwell
For I know,
whate’er befall me
Jesus doeth all things well
For I know, whate’er
befall me
Jesus doeth all things well
All the way my Savior leads me
Cheers each winding path I
tread
Gives me grace for every trial
Feeds me with the living
Bread
Though my weary steps may falter
And my soul athirst may
be
Gushing from the Rock before me
Lo! A spring of joy I
see
Gushing from the Rock before me
Lo! A spring of joy I see
All the way my Savior leads me
O the fullness of His
love!
Perfect rest to me is promised
In my Father’s house
above
When my spirit, clothed immortal
Wings its flight to realms of
day
This my song through endless ages
Jesus led me all the
way
This my song through endless ages
Jesus led me all the way
Scriptural Reference:
"I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say." John 12:50
Let the Lower Lights Be Burning
Words and music: Philip P. Bliss (1871)
Lead:
Lyrics:
Brightly beams our Father’s mercy from His lighthouse evermore
But
to us He gives the keeping of the lights along the shore
Let the lower
lights be burning! Send a gleam across the wave!
Some poor struggling,
sinking sailor you may rescue, you may save
Dark the night of sin has settled, loud the angry billows roar
Eager
eyes are watching, longing, for the lights, along the shore
Let the
lower lights be burning! Send a gleam across the wave!
Eager eyes are
watching, longing, for the lights, along the shore
Trim your feeble lamp, my brother, some poor sailor tempest
tossed
Trying now to make the harbor, in the darkness may be
lost
Let the lower lights be burning! Send a gleam across the
wave!
Trying now to make the harbor, some poor sailor may be lost
Scriptural Reference:
"Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, like men waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him." Luke 12:35-36
Words: Philip P. Bliss (1876)
Music: James McGranahan
(1877)
Editor's Note: This is believed to be the last song Philip Bliss
wrote. It was found in his belongings after he was killed trying to
rescue his wife from a train wreck that he initially survived. It
was also the first song ever recorded on Thomas Edison's
phonograph.
Lead:
Lyrics:
I will sing of my Redeemer
And His wondrous love to me
On the
cruel cross He suffered
From the curse to set me free
Chorus:
Sing, oh sing, of my Redeemer
With His blood, He
purchased me
On the cross, He sealed my pardon
Paid the debt, and
made me free
I will sing of my Redeemer
And His heav’nly love to me
He from
death to life hath brought me
Son of God with Him to be
Repeat Chorus (x2)
Scriptural Reference:
"My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you — I, whom you have redeemed." Psalm 71:23
Words and music:
Lead:
Lyrics:
Tomorrow will be better, wait and see
If this day I have walked in
truth and right
No day to long, no night to dark for me
For someone
goes before and holds the light
Chorus:
I do not fear tomorrow, no thought of grief or sorrow
Can
blind me to the way my feet must go
I understand that someone holds my
hand
My Lord is taking care of me I know
Tomorrow will be brighter, skies will clear
If I have tried to bring
sunshine today
A friendly sun will tell me joy is here
And every
little cloud will drift away
Repeat Chorus
Scriptural Reference:
"You will not have to fight this battle. Take up your positions; stand firm and see the deliverance the LORD will give you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Go out to face them tomorrow, and the LORD will be with you." 2 Chronicles 20:17
Words: Fanny Crosby (1868)
Music: W. Howard Doane
This song also
appeared on Songs My Mother Used to Sing by
The Sounds of Glory.
Lead: Lanier Stevens
Lyrics:
No tears in heaven, no sorrow given
All will be glory in that
land
They'll be no sadness, all will be gladness
When we shall join
that happy band
Chorus:
(And they'll be) No tears (in heaven fair), no tears, no
tears up there
Sorrow and pain will all have flown
(And they'll be)
No tears (in heaven fair), no tears, no tears up there
No tears in
heaven will be known
Glory is waiting, waiting up yonder
Where we shall spend an
endless day
There with our Savior, we'll be forever
Where no more
sorrow can dismay
Repeat Chorus
Some morning yonder, we'll cease to ponder
For things this life has
brought to view
All will be clearer, saved ones be dearer
In heaven
where all will be made new
Repeat Chorus
Scriptural Reference:
"He will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces; He will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth. The Lord has spoken." Isaiah 25:8
Words: Thomas O. Chisholm (1934)
Music: Lloyd O. Sanderson
(1934)
Lead:
Lyrics:
Be with me, Lord, I cannot live without Thee
I dare not try to take
one step alone
I cannot bear the loads of life, unaided
I need Thy
strength to lean myself upon
Be with me, Lord, and then if dangers threaten
If storms of trial
burst above my head
If lashing seas leap everywhere about me
They
cannot harm, or make my heart afraid
Be with me Lord, when loneliness o'er-takes me
When I must weep amid
the fires of pain
And when shall come the hour of my departure
For
worlds unknown, O Lord, be with me then
Scriptural Reference:
"And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am." John 14:3
Words: Johnson Oatman
Music: J.W. Dennis
This song also appeared
on Songs My Mother Used to Sing
by The Sounds of Glory.
Lead: Dale Underwood
Lyrics:
They tried my Lord (they tried my Lord) and Master
With no one
to (with no one to) defend
Within the halls (within the halls) of
Pilate
He stood without (He stood without) a friend
Chorus:
I'll be a friend (I'll be a friend) to Jesus
My life for
Him (my life for Him) I'll spend
I'll be a friend (I'll be a friend) to
Jesus
Until my years (until my years) shall end
The world may turn (the world may turn) against Him
I'll love Him to
(I'll love Him to) the end
And while on earth (and while on earth) I'm
living
My Lord shall have (my Lord shall have) a friend
Repeat Chorus
To all who need (to all who need) a Savior
My friend I (my friend I)
recommend
Because He brought (because He brought) salvation
Is why I
am (is why I am) His friend
Repeat Chorus
Scriptural Reference:
"When Jesus saw their faith, he said, 'Friend, your sins are forgiven.'" Luke 5:20
Words and music: Wilkin "Chief" Bacon (1943)
This song also appeared
on Old Time
Favorites by The Sounds of Glory.
Lead: Dale Underwood
Lyrics:
Jesus the Savior came down from above
Came to bring mercy and
love
"Crucify Him" the mob scornfully cried
So He on Calvary
died
While on the cross He prayed, "Father forgive
For they know not
what they do"
For us He died that for Him we might live
Can He
depend on You?
Chorus:
Can He depend on You (can He depend on You)?
His blessed
will to do (His blessed will to do)?
Will you be crowned with the
faithful and true?
Can He depend on You?
He is preparing in heaven a home
For all His faithful and own
Are
you preparing to stand by His side
Or in that day be denied?
Have
you told others the story of love?
Showing them what they should
do
These are the precepts that come from above
Can He depend on
You?
Repeat Chorus
Scriptural Reference:
"If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone." Romans 12:18
Words and music:
Lead:
Lyrics:
Though the way may be dark and obscure
And rough in the gloom it may
be
Soon I'll come to that clear crystal stream
And I know someone
will welcome me
Chorus:
Welcome me (welcome me) to that fair land (to that fair
land)
Where the light in my house I can see (I can see)
Oh what joy
(oh what joy) that greeting smile (that greeting smile)
And I know
someone will welcome me
Here I travel with tears and with joy
And sometimes how lonely the
way
But God's pattern unfolds on my life
To assure me of that
perfect day
Repeat Chorus
How I miss those who've gone on before
Their smiles how I long
here to see
But I know when I come to that stream
There'll be somone
reaching out to me
Repeat Chorus (x2)
Scriptural Reference:
"So if you consider me a partner, welcome him as you would welcome me." Philemon 1:17
Words: Fanny J. Crosby (1868)
Music: W. Howard Doane
(1868)
Editor's Note: The original version of this song was played in
1885 when President Ulysses S. Grant was buried.
Lead:
Lyrics:
Chorus:
Safe in the arms of Jesus, safe on His gentle
breast
There by His love o’ershaded, sweetly my soul shall rest
Hark! ’tis the voice of angels, borne in a song to me
Over the
fields of glory, over the jasper sea
Repeat Chorus
Jesus, my heart’s dear Refuge, Jesus has died for me
Firm on the
Rock of Ages, ever my trust shall be
Here let me wait with patience, wait till the night is over
Wait
till I see the morning break on the golden shore
Repeat Chorus
Scriptural Reference:
"We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the one who was born of God keeps him safe, and the evil one cannot harm him." 1 John 5:18
Words: Johnson Oatman Jr. (1897)
Music: Edwin O. Excell
(1897)
Lead:
Lyrics:
When upon life’s billows you are tempest tossed
When you are
discouraged, thinking all is lost
Count your many blessings, name them
one by one
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done
Chorus:
Count your (many) blessings, name them one by one
Count
your (many) blessings, see what God hath done
Count your (many)
blessings, name them one by one
Count your many blessings, see what God
hath done
Are you ever burdened with a load of care?
Does the cross seem heavy
you are called to bear?
Count your many blessings, every doubt will
fly
And you will keep singing as the days go by
Repeat Chorus
So, amid the conflict whether great or small
Do not be discouraged,
God is over all
Count your many blessings, angels will attend
Help
and comfort give you to your journey’s end
Repeat Chorus
Scriptural Reference:
"All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God: ..." Deuteronomy 28:2
Words: Sanford Fillmore Bennett (1868)
Music: Joseph P. Webster
(1868)
This song also appeared on Hymns for All the Ages by
Acappella.
Lead:
Lyrics:
There's a land that is fairer than day
And by faith we can see it
afar
For the Father waits over the way
To prepare us a dwelling
place there
Chorus:
In the sweet (in the sweet) by and by (by and by)
We
shall meet on that beautiful shore (by and by)
In the sweet (in the
sweet) by and by (by and by)
We shall meet on that beautiful shore
To our bountiful Father above
We will offer our tribute of
praise
For the glorious gift, the gift of His love
And the blessings
that hallow our days
Repeat Chorus (x2)
Scriptural Reference:
"In My Father's house there are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you" John 14:2
Words and music: A. E. Brumley (1932)
This song also appeared on many
other albums including Songs My Mother Used to
Sing by The Sounds of Glory.
Lead: Dan Stevens
Lyrics:
Some glad morning when this life is o'er
I'll (fly away) fly away
(fly away)
To a home on God's celestial shore
I'll (fly away) fly
away (fly away)
Chorus:
I'll (fly away) fly away, oh glory!
I'll (fly away) fly
away in the morning
When I die, hallelujah by and by
I'll (fly
away) fly away (fly away)
When the shadows of this life have grown
I'll (fly away) fly away
(fly away)
Like a bird from prison bars has flown
I'll (fly away)
fly away (fly away)
Repeat Chorus
Just a few more weary days and then
I'll (fly away) fly away
To a
land where joy shall never end
I'll (fly away) fly away
Repeat Chorus (x2)
Scriptural Reference:
"I said, 'Oh, that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be
at rest'" Psalm 55:6
"In My Father’s house there are many rooms;
if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a
place for you.” John 14:2
Words: Virgil P. Brock (1936)
Music: Blanche Kerr Brock
(1936)
Lead: None
Lyrics:
Beyond the sunset oh blissful morning
When with our Saviour Heav'n
is begun
Earth's toiling ending, oh glorious dawning
Beyond the
sunset when day is done
Beyond the sunset no clouds will gather
No storms will threaten, no
fears annoy
Oh day of gladness, oh day unending
Beyond the sunset,
eternal Joy
Beyond the sunset oh glad reunion
With our dear loved ones who've
gone before
In that fair homeland we'll know no parting
Beyond the
sunset for evermore
Scriptural Reference:
"Surely you have granted him eternal blessings and made him glad with the joy of your presence." Psalm 21:6
Words and music:
Lead:
Lyrics:
[Phrases echoed throughout]
Twas Christ my Lord who came to
share
My greatest joy, my deepest care
I cast on him my every
fear
Content to know that He is near
My Savior's love counts not the cost
He paid the price upon the
cross
Redeemed am I, there is no fear
For Christ my Lord is always
near
I'm glad each day, though billows roll
There's not to dread, He
keeps my soul
Tis sweet to know when life is o'er
I'll live with Him
forevermore
Repeat Chorus (x2)
Scriptural Reference:
"Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near." Isaiah 55:6
What a Friend We Have in Jesus
Words: Joseph M. Scriven (1855) - initially published
anonymously
Music: Charles C. Converse (1868)
Lead:
Lyrics:
What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear
What
a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer
Oh what peace we often
forfeit, oh what needless pain we bear
All because we do not carry
everything to God in prayer
Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere?
We should
never be discouraged; take it to the Lord in prayer
Can we find a
friend so faithful who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows our
every weakness; take it to the Lord in prayer
Are we weak and heavy laden, cumbered with a load of care?
Precious
Savior, still our refuge, take it to the Lord in prayer
Do thy friends
despise, forsake thee? Take it to the Lord in prayer
In His arms He’ll
take and shield thee; thou wilt find a solace there
Scriptural Reference:
"Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13
Words and music:
Lead:
Lyrics:
Onward rejoicing I tread life's way
Higher I'm climbing each passing
day
Hilltops of glory now rise in view
Where all shall be made
new
Chorus:
Hilltops of glory I now can see
(Now tell me) Oh brother
won't you come go with me?
Safe on the mountain I soon shall
stand
Hilltops of glory land!
Way down in Egypt, mid burning sand
Moses had started for Canaan's
land
Never turn backward, always ascend
On to the journey's end
Repeat Chorus
Footsteps of Jesus before us lead
We tread life's journey, His
warnings heed
Evil allurements cannot prevail
I'm on the upward
trail
Repeat Chorus (x2)
Scriptural Reference:
"Raise a banner on a bare hilltop, shout to them; beckon to them to enter the gates of the nobles." Isaiah 13:2
Words and music: John Newton (1779)
This song also appeared on
many
other albums.
Lead:
Lyrics:
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I
once was lost, but now am found
Was blind, but now I see!
Twas grace that taught my heart to fear
And grace my fears
relieved!
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first
believed
Through many dangers, toils, and snares
I have already come
Tis
grace that brought me safe thus far
And Grace will lead me home
When we've been there ten thousand years
Bright shining as the
sun
We've no less days to sing God's praise
Than when we first
begun!
Scriptural Reference:
"For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost
and is found . . ." Luke 15:24
". . . to the praise of his glorious
grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves." Ephesians
1:6
"His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance."
Revelation 1:16b
Words and music: Albert E. Brumley © 1938, 1966 Stamps-Baxter
Music
This song also appeared on Hole in the Screen Door by Cross
Examined.
Lead:
Lyrics:
Come and listen in to a radio station
Where the mighty hosts of
heaven sing
Turn your radio on (turn your radio), turn your radio on
(turn your radio on)
If you want to hear the songs of Zion
Coming
from the land of endless spring
Get in touch with God (get in touch
with God), turn your radio on (turn your radio on)
Chorus:
Turn your radio on (turn your radio on), and listen to the
music in the air
Turn your radio on (turn your radio on), Heaven's
glory share (Heaven's glory share)
Turn the lights down low (turn
the lights down low), and listen to the Master's radio
Get in touch
with God (get in touch with God), turn your radio on (turn your radio
on)
Listen to the songs of the fathers and mothers
And the many friends
gone on before
Turn your radio on (turn your radio), turn your radio on
(turn your radio on)
Some eternal morning we shall meet them
Over on
the hallelujah shore
Get in touch with God (get in touch with God),
turn your radio on (turn your radio on)
Repeat Chorus (x2)
Scriptural Reference:
"Come and listen, all you who fear God; let me tell you what he has done for me." Psalm 66:16
Words: Thomas A. Dorsey (1932) © 1938 (Renewed 1965) Unichappell
Music Inc., Assigned to Warner-Tamerline Publishing Corp.
Music:
Adapted by Thomas Dorsey from "Maitland" by George N. Allen
This song
also appeared as "Precious Lord, Take My Hand" on Never Grow Old by
Revival and Spirituals by
Revival.
Lead: Chet Sweet
Editor's Note: Dorsey wrote this song in Chicago, Illinois, after his wife Nettie died while giving birth to a child (who also died shortly thereafter). Dorsey sang the song for his friend, Gospel singer Theodore Frye, and Frye’s choir sang it the next Sunday at the Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Lyrics:
When my way groweth drear
Precious Lord, linger near
When my life
is almost gone
Hear my cry, hear my call
Hold my hand lest I
fall
Take my hand, precious Lord
Lead me home
When the shadows appear
And the night draweth near
And the day is
past and gone
At the river I stand
Guide my feet, hold my
hand
Take my hand, precious Lord
Lead me home
Precious Lord (precious Lord), take my hand (take my hand)
Lead me
on (lead me on), let me stand (let me stand)
I am tired (I am tired), I
am weak (I am weak), I am worn
Through the storm (through the storm),
through the night (through the night)
Lead me on (lead me on) to the
light (to the light)
Take my hand, precious Lord
Lead me home
Take my hand, precious Lord
Lead me home
Scriptural Reference:
"For I am the Lord, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you." Isaiah 41:13
Words: A.M. Toplady (1776)
Music: Thomas Hastings (1830)
This
song also appeared on Memories by The Sounds of
Glory and Hymns for All the World by
Acappella.
Lead:
Lyrics:
Rock of ages, cleft for me
Let me hide myself in thee
Let the
water and the blood
From thy wounded side which flowed
Be of sin the
double cure
Save from wrath and make me pure
Could my tears forever fall?
Could my zeal no longer know?
These
for sin cannot atone
Thou must save and thou alone
In my hand no
price I bring
Simply to the cross I cling
While I draw this fleeting breath
When my eyes shall close in
death
When I rise to worlds unknown
And behold thee on the
throne
Rock of ages, cleft for me
Let me hide myself in thee
Scriptural Reference:
"Turn your ear to me, come quickly to my rescue; be my rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me. Since you are my rock and my fortress, for the sake of your name lead and guide me." Psalm 31:2-3
Words and music: Robert Sterling Arnold
Lead:
Lyrics:
Christ the dear Lord, glorious Lord, speaks to us gently
By His
great word that is our light each day
Tell us the way, glorious way, we
may reach heaven
If we believe, if we repent, if we obey
Chorus:
Did you repeat, fully repent of your past sins,
friend
When you confessed His name on high?
Did you believe, fully
believe on His great name then
Or was a doubt, treacherous doubt,
lingering nigh?
Did you obey all of the way what He commanded
Things
in His word we're told to do?
Did you confess, fully confess Jesus the
Savior
Did you repent, did you believe all the way through?
Yes, He has said, truly has said, how we should live now
What to
partake, what to avoid while here
Do unto those that are about a kindly
service
Tell them of Christ, teach them that He always is near
Repeat Chorus
Scriptural Reference:
"Jesus answered, 'Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them — do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.'" Luke 13:2-5
Words and music: Phillip P. Bliss (1871)
Lead:
Lyrics:
Almost persuaded now to believe
Almost persuaded Christ to
receive
Seems now some soul to say
“Go, Spirit, go Thy way
Some
more convenient day
On Thee I’ll call.”
Almost persuaded, come, come today
Almost persuaded, turn not
away
Jesus invites you here
Angels are lingering near
Prayers
rise from hearts so dear
O wanderer, come!
Almost persuaded, harvest is past
Almost persuaded, doom comes at
last
“Almost” cannot avail
“Almost” is but to fail!
Sad, sad,
that bitter wail
“Almost,” but lost!
Scriptural Reference:
"Then Agrippa said to Paul, 'Do you think that in such a short time you can persuade me to be a Christian?'" Acts 26:28
Words and music: Ira Stamphill (~1949)
This song also appeared on
Songs My Mother Used to
Sing by The Sounds of Glory.
Lead:
Lyrics:
I'm satisfied with just a cottage below
A little silver and a little
gold
But in that city, where the ransomed will shine
I want a gold
one, that silver lined
Chorus:
I've got a mansion just over the hilltop
In that bright
land where we'll never grow old
And someday yonder, we will never more
wander
But walk the streets that are purest gold
Though often tempted, tormented, and tested
And like the prophet, my
pillow a stone
And though I find here no permanent dwelling
I know
He'll give me a mansion my own
Repeat Chorus
Don't think me poor or deserted or lonely
I'm not discouraged, I'm
heaven bound
I'm just a pilgrim in search of a city
I want a
mansion, a robe, and a crown
Repeat Chorus (x2)
Scriptural Reference:
"The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of pure gold, like transparent glass." Revelation 21:21
Special thanks for additions and/or corrections to: Cyberhymnal, Hymnlyrics.org
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