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LAND OF PLEASURE
Meter: 7.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Davison; William Walker Incipit: 32161 56123 21232 Used With Text: There is a land of pleasure
LAND OF PLEASURE
Land of Pleasure
Appears in 96 hymnals First Line: There is a land of pleasure Used With Tune: [There is a land of pleasure]
Land of Pleasure
There is a land of pleasure
Hymnal: The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion (New ed. thoroughly rev. and much enl.) #63 (1854) Meter: 7.8 Lyrics:
1.
There is a land of pleasure,
Where streams of joy for ever roll,
'Tis there I have my treasure,
And there I long to rest my soul.
Long darkness dwelt around me,
With scarcely once a cheering ray,
But since my Savior found me,
A lamp has shone along my way.
2.
My way is full of danger,
But 'tis the path that leads to God;
And like a faithful soldier,
I'll march along the heavenly road;
Now I must gird my sword on,
My breastplate, helmet, and my shield,
And fight the hosts of Satan
Until I reach the heavenly field.
3.
I'm on the way to Zion,
Still guarded by my Savior's hand;
O, come along, dear sinners,
And view Emmanuel's happy land:
To all that stay behind me,
I bid a long, a sad farewell!
O come! or you'll repent it,
When you shall reach the gates of hell.
4.
The vale of tears surrounds me,
And Jordan's current rolls before;
O! how I stand and tremble,
To hear the dismal waters roar!
Whose hand shall then support me,
And keep my soul from sinking there
From sinking down to darkness,
And to the regions of despair?
5.
This stream shall not affright me,
Although it take me to the grave;
If Jesus stand beside me,
I'll safely ride on Jordan's wave:
His word can calm the ocean,
His lamp can cheer the gloomy vale:
O may this friend be with me,
When through the gates of death I sail!
6.
Come, then, thou king of terrors,
Thy fatal dart may lay me low;
But soon I'll reach those regions
Where everlasting pleasures flow:
O sinners, I must leave you,
And join that blessed immortal band,
No more to stand beside you,
Till at the judgment bar we stand.
7.
Soon the archangel's trumpet
Shall shake the globe from pole to pole.
And all the wheels of nature
Shall in a moment cease to roll.
Then we shall see the Savior,
With shining ranks of angels come,
To execute his vengeance,
And take his ransomed people home.
Languages: English Tune Title: LAND OF PLEASURE
There is a land of pleasure
Land of Pleasure
Hymnal: Songs of Triumph #106 (1882) First Line: There is a land of pleasure Languages: English Tune Title: [There is a land of pleasure]
Land of Pleasure
William Walker
1809 - 1875 Arranger of "LAND OF PLEASURE" in The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion (New ed. thoroughly rev. and much enl.)
William Walker
Ananias Davisson
1780 - 1857 Person Name: Davison Composer of "LAND OF PLEASURE" in The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion (New ed. thoroughly rev. and much enl.) Ananias Davisson (February 2, 1780 – October 21, 1857) was a singing school teacher, printer and compiler of shape note tunebooks.
Davisson was born February 2, 1780 in Shenandoah County, Virginia. He spent his last years living on a farm at Weyer's Cave, about 14 miles from Dayton, Virginia, and died October 21, 1857. He is buried in the Massanutten-Cross Keys Cemetery, Rockingham County, Virginia. Davisson was a member and ruling elder of the Presbyterian Church.
He is best known for his 1816 compilation the Kentucky Harmony (Harrisonburg, Virginia), which is generally considered the first Southern shape-note tunebook. Composer and publisher William B. Blake said it was "a book characteristic of that period, abounding in minor tunes." Other books published by Davisson were A Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony (Harrisonburg, Virginia: 1820), Introduction to Sacred Music, Extracted from the Kentucky Harmony and Chiefly Intended for the Benefit of Young Scholars, (Harrisonburg, Virginia: 1821), and A Small Collection of Sacred Music (Harrisonburg, Virginia: 1825). According to musicologist George Pullen Jackson, Davisson's compilations are "pioneer repositories of a sort of song that the rural South really liked." Perhaps his best-known tune is "Idumea," a minor tune very popular in Southern shape note circles and featured in the movie Cold Mountain.
In addition to his own tunebooks, Davisson also printed Songs of Zion by James P. Carrell (1821)
--en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Ananias Davisson
