SDA Hymns – We Are Nearing Home (Guitar)

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Aka, Just Over The Mountains Words and Music by John R. Sweney Arranged by C.P. Whitford SDA Church Hymnal (1941) Hymn #642 [Verse 1]
C                              G7       C
Just over the mountains in the Promised Land,

C             Am            Dm    D7  G
Lies the holy city built by God’s own hand;

C                               F         C
As our weary footsteps gain the mountain’s crest,

G7     C        F            C  G7  C
We can view our homeland of eternal rest.
[Refrain]
C          G7  C                 G7  C
We are nearing home!  We are nearing home!

C       F                                C
See the splendor gleaming from the domes afar!

C       G7                              C
See the glory streaming from the “gates ajar”

C                                   Fm C
There we soon will enter, nevermore to roam,

C        F                           D
Hear the angels singing!  We are nearing home!

D      G7      C
We are nearing home!
[Verse 2]
C                                    G7        C
In the rolls of the prophets we have long been told

C                Am            Dm      D7 G
Of that wondrous city with its streets of gold;

C                               F      C
Now with raptured vision we can see it there,

G7       C        F              C  G7    C
With its walls of jasper and its mansions fair.
[Refrain]
C          G7  C                 G7  C
We are nearing home!  We are nearing home!

C       F                                C
See the splendor gleaming from the domes afar!

C       G7                              C
See the glory streaming from the “gates ajar”

C                                   Fm C
There we soon will enter, nevermore to roam,

C        F                           D
Hear the angels singing!  We are nearing home!

D      G7      C
We are nearing home!
[Verse 3]
C                                 G7       C
Those who enter that city are the faithful few

C                 Am                 Dm D7   G
Who keep God's commandments-faith of Je-sus, too;

C                                       F       C
There we'll lift our voices through the endless days,

G7       C        F               C      G7 C
In sweet songs of gladness and in psalms of praise.
[Refrain]
C          G7  C                 G7  C
We are nearing home!  We are nearing home!

C       F                                C
See the splendor gleaming from the domes afar!

C       G7                              C
See the glory streaming from the “gates ajar”

C                                   Fm C
There we soon will enter, nevermore to roam,

C        F                           D
Hear the angels singing!  We are nearing home!

D      G7      C
We are nearing home!
[Verse 4]
C                               G7      C
My brother, my sister, will you meet us there,

C               Am                      Dm D7 G
In that land of sunshine where there'll be no care?

C                               F      C
Accept of God's message, and to Him be true;

G7        C     F              C    G7  C
Then when Jesus cometh He will call for you.
[Refrain]
C          G7  C                 G7  C
We are nearing home!  We are nearing home!

C       F                                C
See the splendor gleaming from the domes afar!

C       G7                              C
See the glory streaming from the “gates ajar”

C                                   Fm C
There we soon will enter, nevermore to roam,

C        F                           D
Hear the angels singing!  We are nearing home!

D      G7      C
We are nearing home!