A Call for Volunteers

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There's a call for volunteers, Hear the cry

Author: C. M. Seamans
Tune: [There's a call for volunteers]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 There’s a call for volunteers,
Hear the cry!
See, the battle-clouds hang low,
In the sky!
Hark! the bugle, loud and clear,
Speaks to all, both far and near,
There’s a call, yes, a call for volunteers.

Refrain:
There’s a call for volunteers,
There’s a call for volunteers;
Marching with the sons of light,
Let us battle for the right,
There’s a call, a call for volunteers today;
There’s a call for volunteers,
There’s a call for volunteers;
Come and fill the ranks today,
To the battle front away!
There’s a call, there’s a call for volunteers.

2 There’s a call for volunteers,
Who will go?
Yonder, marching to the fray,
Comes the foe.
‘Tis a call to go and fight,
‘Gainst the wrong and for the right, [Refrain]

3 There’s a call for volunteers,
Brave and true;
Hark! Again, the clarion notes,
Call for you.
Now, the clash of arms is here,
Come, enlist, and do not fear,
There’s a call, yes, a call for volunteers. [Refrain]

4 There’s a call for volunteers,
Stand we must;
Till the pow’r of wrong is laid,
In the dust;
Now, your God and Country calls,
Strike the foe who now enthralls!
There’s a call, yes, a call for volunteers. [Refrain]

Source: New Songs of Pentecost No. 2 #78

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Author: C. M. Seamans

Seamans, Clarence Milton. (Johnston, Rhode Island, February 8, 1869--July 21, 1939, Whitman, Massachusetts). Direct descendant of Roger Williams, the founder of the Rhode Island Colony. Seamans married Annie May Bennett on October 8, 1890; they had four children. Ordained to the ministry of the Advent Christian Church, he served their churches in Pascoag and River Point, R.I.; Dover, New Hampshire; Chelsea, Springfield, and Boston, Mass.; and Rutland, Vermont. His last 19 years were spent as pastor in Whitman, Mass. For many years, he was secretary of the Massachusetts Advent Christian Conference and of the Marion (Mass.) Campmeeting Association. He was also active in the Alton Bay (N.H.) Campmeeting Association. He contributed many arti… Go to person page >

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First Line:	There's a call for volunteers, Hear the cry
Title:	A Call for Volunteers
Author:	C. M. Seamans
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	There's a call for volunteers
Publication Date:	1917
Copyright:	Public Domain