Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_8861-The-holy-city
https://archive.org/details/78_the-holy-city__gbia0013125a
https://archive.org/details/78_the-holy-city_alexander-d.-richardson-f.-e.-weatherly-stephen-adams_gbia0006788a
https://archive.org/details/78_the-holy-city_columbia-mixed-quartet-adams_gbia0015064b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-holy-city_gbia0014555a
https://archive.org/details/78_the-holy-city_harry-macdonough-stephen-adams_gbia0017642b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-holy-city_henry-burr_gbia0018315b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-holy-city_henry-burr-stephen-adams_gbia0012265b
https://archive.org/details/78_the-holy-city_richard-bonelli-weatherly-adams_gbia0036534b
https://archive.org/details/78_9697-The-holy-city-Den-Hellige-Stad
https://archive.org/details/78_the-holy-city-part-ii_harry-macdonough-adams_gbia0016247
Publication Date
1892
Lyrics
Last night I lay asleeping,
There came a dream so fair;
I stood in old Jerusalem,
Beside the Temple there;
I heard the children singing,
And ever as they sang,
Me thought the voice of Angels
From Heaven’ in answer rang,
Me thought the voice of Angels
From Heav’n in answer rang,
“Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
Lift up you gates and sing
Hosanna in the highest,
Hosanna to your King!
And then me thought my dream was chang’d
The streets no longer rang,
Hush’d were the glad Hosannas
The little children sang,
The sun grew dark with mystery,
The morn was the chill,
As the shadow of a cross arose
Upon a lonely hill,
As the shadow of a cross arose
Upon a lonely hill.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
Hark! How the Angels sing
Hosanna in the Highest!
Hosanna to your King!
And once again the scene was chang’d,
New earth there seem’d to be!
I saw the holy city
Beside the tideless sea;
The light of God was on its street,
The gates were open wide;
And all who would might enter,
And no one was denied,
No need of moon or stars by night,
Nor sun to shine by day;
It was the new Jerusalem,
That would not pass away!
It was the new Jerusalem,
That would not pass away.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
Sing for the night o’er,
Hosanna in the highest!
Hosanna for evermore!
Hosanna in the highest!
Hosanna for evermore!
Recommended Citation
Adams, Stephen, "The Holy City" (1892). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 590.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/590
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
Sung by Edward Lloyd.
The Holy City song
The music by F.E. Weatherly
The Music Composed and Dedicated to Mrs. Philip H. Waterlow
By Stephen Adams
Boosey & Co. 295 Regent Street, London. W.
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