Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: Jerusalem my happy home
Topic: Heaven
Writer: Unknown Unknown
Composer: A Fillmore
Meter: CM with chorus
Tune: Going Home
Hymn Number: 331
Page Number: 109, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsJERUSALEM, my happy home,
O how I long for thee!
When will my sorrows have an end?
Thy joys, when shall I see?-CHO.
CHORUS-
We're going home, we're going home,
We're going home, to live forever.
Thy walls are all of precious stones,
Most glorious to behold;
Thy gates are richly set with pearl,
Thy streets are paved with gold.-CHO.
Thy gardens and thy pleasant greens
My study long have been-
Such sparkling gems by human sight
Have never yet been seen.-CHO.
If heaven' be thus glorious, Lord,
Why should I stay from thence?
What folly 'tis that I should dread
To die and go from hence!-CHO.
Reach down, reach down thine arms of grace,
And cause me to ascend
Where congregations ne'er break up,
And praises never end.-CHO.