Misc Praise Songs – O Ye Mountains High (Guitar)

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1. O ye mountains high, where the clear blue sky

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Arches over the vales of the free,

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Where the pure breezes blow and the clear streamlets flow,

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How I’ve longed to your bosom to flee!

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O Zion! dear Zion! land of the free,

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Now my own mountain home, unto thee I have come;

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All my fond hopes are centered in thee.

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2. Tho the great and the wise all thy beauties despise,

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To the humble and pure thou art dear;

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Tho the haughty may smile and the wicked revile,

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Yet we love thy glad tidings to hear.

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O Zion! dear Zion! home of the free,

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Tho thou wert forced to fly to thy chambers on high,

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Yet we’ll share joy and sorrow with thee.

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3. In thy mountain retreat, God will strengthen thy feet;

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Without fear of thy foes thou shalt tread;

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And their silver and gold, as the prophets have told,

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Shall be brought to adorn thy fair head.

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O Zion! dear Zion! home of the free,

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Soon thy towers shall shine with a splendor divine,

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And eternal thy glory shall be.

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4. Here our voices we’ll raise, and we’ll sing to thy praise,

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Sacred home of the prophets of God.

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Thy deliv’rance is nigh; thy oppressors shall die;

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And thy land shall be freedom’s abode.

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O Zion! dear Zion! land of the free,

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In thy temples we’ll bend; all thy rights we’ll defend;

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And our home shall be ever with thee.