Hymnal: New Christian Hymn and Tune Book
Date: 1882
Compiler: Fillmore Brothers
Publisher/Printer: Fillmore Brothers
First Line: I have friends across the river
Topic: Heaven
Writer: Emma Pitt
Composer: Frederick Fillmore
Meter: 8s and 7s with chorus
Tune: Across the River
Hymn Number: 648
Page Number: 258, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsI have friends a-cross the riv-er,
Where for me they glad-ly wait;
Hold a-jar with an-gel fin-gers
Yon-der bright and pearl-y gate,
CHO.- O how sweet will be the meeting
In that happy home above! (above!)
And how welcome be the greet-ing
Of the Sav-iour whom I love!
In that home that knows now sorrow,
All our partings will be o'er;
We shall sing the song of glory
On that happy, golden shore.-CHO.
Yes, I've friends across the river,
And I hope to greet them there.
When this earthly toil is over,
In that land so bright and fair.-CHO.