We Come With Joyful Song

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We come with joyful song, To the place we love so dearly

Author: George F. Root
Published in 4 hymnals

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1 We come with joyful song
To the place we love so dearly,
We join the happy throng
Of friends and teachers true.
With greetings kind to all,
We raise our voices cheerily,
For in the Sabbath school
Are pleasures ever new.

Chorus:
Be joyful, be joyful,
be joyful, be joyful,
be joyful, be joyful,
In the Sabbath school.

2 We come with thankful hearts
To the book of life eternal,
For here its light imparts
The knowledge of our Lord.
And seeds that now are sown
Will bloom in joy supernal,
If while our sins we own
We love and trust his word. [Chorus]

Source: The Silver Chime: a cluster of Sabbath school melodies, tunes, sentences, chants, etc., for the use of children and teachers in their school exercises, devotions, and recreations, to which is added... #4

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Author: George F. Root

Root, George F., MUS. DOC, born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., Aug. 30, 1820. He is much more widely known as a composer of popular music than as a hymn writer. Four of his hymns are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878. Nos. 16, 100, 293, and 297. A sympathetic biographical sketch, with portrait, is in The Tonic Sol-Fa Reporter, Sep. 1886. He died Aug. 6, 1895. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >

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First Line:	We come with joyful song, To the place we love so dearly
Title:	We Come With Joyful Song
Author:	George F. Root
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Be joyful, be joyful!
Copyright:	Public Domain