I Will Arise

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Over the weary roads of sadness

Author: Morton Bryan Wharton
Tune: RESTORATION (Southern Harmony)
Published in 2 hymnals

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	ARISE ("Come Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy"…

Author: Morton Bryan Wharton

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First Line:	Over the weary roads of sadness
Title:	I Will Arise
Author:	Morton Bryan Wharton
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	I will arise and go to Jesus
Copyright:	Public Domain

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RESTORATION (Southern Harmony)

ARISE is an anonymous American folk melody. Set to "Mercy, O Thou Son of David," the tune was published in William Walker's (PHH 44) Southern Harmony (1835) with the title RESTORATION. Its name was changed to ARISE (after the refrain in the ballad about the prodigal son) when it was set to Hart's te…

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