Ye Golden Lamps

from Shout and Go Round by Wheeler & Sablosky

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We learned the tune listening to Tim Eriksen's recording of "Amazing Grace" from his album Soul of the January Hills. When we asked him about how to credit it, he told us the following: "I learned the song singing with members of the Lee family of Hoboken, Georgia when I brought them up to Dartmouth when I was teaching there in 2000. I don’t know how it would be appropriate to credit the song. I guess it’s your take on my memory of what I learned singing with David, Cathy, Johnny, Delores and Tollie Lee."

Hymn text for verses 1 and 2 written by Philip Doddridge (1702-1751). Verses 3 and 4 written by John Newton, 1779.

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Ye golden lamps of heav'n farewell,
With all your feeble light;
Farewell thou ever changing moon,
Pale empress of the night.

And thou, refulgent orb of day,
In brighter flames array'd;
My soul which springs beyond thy sphere,
No more demands thine aid.

And when this heart and flesh shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease,
I shall possess beyond the veil,
A life of joy and peace.

The earth will soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forebear to shine;
But you, who called me here below,
Shall be forever mine.

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from Shout and Go Round, released February 28, 2020

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