Lift Every Voice and Sing II 9
On Jordan's Stormy Banks
- Tune
- [on jordan's stormy banks i stand]
- Author(s)
- Samuel Stennett (1727-1795)
- Composer(s)
- Rigdon McCoy McIntosh (1836-1899); Norman Johnson
- Tune Source(s)
- American melody
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1 On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand, And cast a wishful eye; To Canaan’s fair and happy land, Where my possessions lie.
Refrain: I am bound for the promised land, I am bound for the promised land; Oh, who will come and go with me? I am bound for the promised land.
2 All o’er those wide-extended plains, Shines one eternal day; There God the Son forever reigns, And scatters night away. [Refrain]
3 No chilling winds or pois’nous breath Can reach that healthful shore; Sickness and sorrow, pain and death, Are felt and feared no more. [Refrain]
4 When shall I reach that happy place And be forever blest? When shall I see my Father’s face, And in God’s bosom rest? [Refrain]