Thanks for being a Hymnary.org user. You are one of more than 10 million people from 200-plus countries around the world who have benefitted from the Hymnary website in 2024! If you feel moved to support our work today with a gift of any amount and a word of encouragement, we would be grateful.

You can donate online at our secure giving site.

Or, if you'd like to make a gift by check, please make it out to CCEL and mail it to:
Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 3201 Burton Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
And may the promise of Advent be yours this day and always.

Click here to donate to Hymnary.org I have already donated. Please don't show this to me again
Text:Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow
Tune:[There's a star in the east on Christmas morn]
Arranger:Alma Blackman (1921-2009)

138. Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow

1 There's a star in the east on Christmas morn.
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.
It will lead to the place where the Savior's born,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.

Refrain:
Leave your sheep and leave your lambs,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.
Leave your ewes and leave your rams,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.
Follow, Follow,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.
Follow the star of Bethlehem,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow. [Refrain]

2 If you take good heed to the angel's words,
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.
You'll forget your flocks, you'll forget your herds
Rise up, shepherd, and follow.
Sounds through the earth and skies. [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: There's a star in the east on Christmas morn
Title: Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow
Refrain First Line: Leave your sheep and leave your lambs
Meter: 10.7.10.7.Ref.
Publication Date: 1985
Topic: Jesus Christ: Birth
Source: American Negro Spiritual
Tune Information
Name: [There's a star in the east on Christmas morn]
Arranger: Alma Blackman (1921-2009) (1984)
Meter: 10.7.10.7.Ref.
Incipit: 16116 16655 55776
Key: D Major
Copyright: Arrangement copyright © by Alma Blackmon



Media
More media are available on the text authority and tune authority pages.

Suggestions or corrections? Contact us
It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. Ad revenue helps keep us running. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or getting Hymnary Pro to eliminate ads entirely and help support Hymnary.org.