On Jordan’s Stormy Banks

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On Jordan's stormy banks I stand and cast a wishful eye
to Canaan's fair and happy land where my possessions lie.

  I'm bound for the promised land, I'm bound for the promised land;
  O who will come and go with me? I'm bound for the promised land.

There gen'rous fruits that never fail on trees immortal grow.
There rocks and hills and brooks and vales with milk and honey flow.

  I'm bound for the promised land, I'm bound for the promised land;
  O who will come and go with me? I'm bound for the promised land.

All o'er those wide extended plains shines one eternnal day.
There God the sun forever reigns, and scatters night away.

  I'm bound for the promised land, I'm bound for the promised land;
  O who will come and go with me? I'm bound for the promised land.

Filled with delight, my raptured soul can here no longer stay.
Though Jordan's waves around me roll, fearless I'd launch away.

  I'm bound for the promised land, I'm bound for the promised land;
  O who will come and go with me? I'm bound for the promised land.

Song Details

Title: On Jordan's Stormy Banks
Text: Samuel Stennett, 1787
Tune: BOUND FOR THE PROMISED LAND
Music: American traditional, Southern Harmony, 1835; arr. Kenan Schaefkofer, 2021
Key: E minor
Meter: CM with refrain
Date Added: 2021/04/23