The Holy City    (video)    (midi)

 

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1. Last night I lay a sleeping, there came a dream so fair,

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    I stood in old Jerusalem beside the temple there.

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    I heard the children singing, and ever as they sang,

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    me thought the voice of angels from Heav’n in answer rang;

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    me thought the voice of a...ngels from Heav’n in answer rang:

 

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“Jerusalem! Jerusalem!  Lift up your gates and sing,

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Hosanna in the highest, Hosanna to your King !”

 

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2. And then me thought my dream was chang’d,

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    the streets no longer rang,

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    hush’d were the glad hosannas the little children sang.

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    The moon grew dark with mystery, the morn was cold and chill,

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    as the shadow of a cross arose upon a lonely hill,

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    as the shadow of a cross arose upon a lonely hill.

 

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“Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Hark! how the angels sing,

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Hosanna in the highest, Hosanna to your King !”

 

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3. And once again the scene was chang’d, new earth there seem’d to be,

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    I saw the Holy City beside the tideless sea;

 

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    the light of God was on its streets, the gates were open wide,

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    and all who would might enter, and no one was denied.

 

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    No need of moon or stars by night, or sun to shine by day,

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    it was the New Jerusalem, that would not pass away,

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    it was the new Jerusalem, that would not pass away.

 

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“Jerusalem! Jerusalem!  Sing, for the night is o’er !

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Hosanna in the highest, Hosanna for evermore !

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Hosanna in the highest - - - Hosanna for evermore !”

 

 

(orig. = capo 3rd)   (Frederick E. Weatherly / Michael Maybrick - 1892)