On Jordan’s Stormy Banks

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Title: On Jordan's Stormy Banks
Text: Samuel Stennett, 1787
Tune: PROMISED LAND
Music: American folk melody, Southern Harmony, 1812
Key: F major
Meter: CM with refrain
Date Added: 2021/04/21

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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.

All o'er those wide extended plains shines one eternal day;
there God the Son 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.

No chilling winds nor poisonous breath can reach that healthful shore;
sickness and sorrow, pain and death are felt and feared no more.

  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.

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?

  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.