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Albion/We're Marching to Zion/Marching to Zion/Come, We that Love the Lord
Public Domain Old-Time, Bluegrass Gospel; Tune: Robert Lowry, 1867 Lyrics: Isaac Watts, 1707;
ARTIST: Tune: Robert Lowry, 1867 Lyrics: Isaac Watts, 1707
CATEGORY: Traditional and Public Domain Gospel
DATE: 1867 (Lowry); First Recorded in 1928 by Smokey Mountain Sacred Singers
RECORDING INFO: Albion-We're Marching to Zion
Benziger, Barbara; & Eleanor Dickinson (eds.) / That Old-Time Religion, Harper & Row, Sof (1975), p 20
Gaither Vocal Band "We're Marching to Zion"
Insight Gospel Singers "We're Marching to Zion"
Smokey Mountain Sacred Singers "We're Marching to Zion" 1928
OTHER NAMES: "Come, We that Love the Lord," "We're Marching to Zion"
SOURCES: Folk Index; Meade
NOTES: Meter: Short Meter (6,6,8,6) "Albion" or "We're Marching to Zion" is a favorite among evangelicals and Pentecostals and appears in the Sacred Harp as Albion 52t
Originally the song was titled "Come, We that Love the Lord" with a tune by Robert Boyd, 1816 and lyrics by Isaac Watts, 1707. Robert Lowry did another setting with new music in 1867 titled "We're Marching to Zion."
“Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion.” Jeremiah 31:6
ALBION- Come, We that Love the Lord- Watts & Boyd The first and third stanzas are by Watts (see others below)
Come, we that love the Lord,
And let our joys be known;
Join in a song with sweet accord,
And thus surround the throne.
Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God,
But servants of the heav’nly King
May speak their joys abroad.
The men of grace have found
Glory begun below;
Celestial fruit on earthly ground
From faith and hope may grow.
First published in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, as "Heavenly Joy on Earth" and also uses tune, St. Thomas in the Original Trinity Hymnal.
Isaac Watt's unsung stanzas are:
2. The sorrows of the mind
Be banishd from the place;
Religion never was design'd
To make our pleasure less.
4. The God that rules on high,
And thunders when He please,
That rides upon the stormy skie,
And manages the seas.
5. This aweful God is ours,
Our Father and our Love,
He shall send down His heav'nly pow'rs
To carry us above.
6. There we shall see His Face,
And never, never sin:
There from the Rivers of His grace,
Drink endless pleasures in.
7. Yes, and before we rise
To that immortal State,
The thoughts of such amazing blis
Should constant Joys create.
MARCHING TO ZION- Watts & Lowry 1867
Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Words: Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 1707; refrain by Robert Lowry. Music: Robert Lowry, 1867. Alternate tunes (these do not use the refrain):
Ain, arranged from Arcangelo Correlli by Lowell Mason, Carmina Sacra (Boston, Massachusetts: J. H. Wilkins & R. B. Carter, 1844), number 160 (MIDI, score)
Silchester, H. A. César Malan (1787-1864) (MIDI, score)
St. Thomas (Williams), Aaron Williams, 1770 (MIDI, score)
Robert Lowry (1826-1899)
Come, we that love the Lord,
And let our joys be known;
Join in a song with sweet accord,
Join in a song with sweet accord
And thus surround the throne,
And thus surround the throne.
Refrain: We’re marching to Zion,
Beautiful, beautiful Zion;
We’re marching upward to Zion,
The beautiful city of God.
The sorrows of the mind
Be banished from the place;
Religion never was designed
Religion never was designed,
To make our pleasures less,
To make our pleasures less.
Refrain
Let those refuse to sing,
Who never knew our God;
But favorites of the heavenly King,
But favorites of the heavenly King
May speak their joys abroad,
May speak their joys abroad.
Refrain
The God that rules on high,
And thunders when He please,
Who rides upon the stormy sky,
Who rides upon the stormy sky,
And manages the seas,
And manages the seas.
Refrain
This awful God is ours,
Our Father and our Love;
He will send down his heav’nly powers,
He will send down his heav’nly powers,
To carry us above,
To carry us above.
Refrain
There we shall see His face,
And never, never sin!
There, from the rivers of His grace,
There, from the rivers of His grace,
Drink endless pleasures in,
Drink endless pleasures in.
Refrain
Yea, and before we rise,
To that immortal state,
The thoughts of such amazing bliss,
The thoughts of such amazing bliss,
Should constant joys create,
Should constant joys create.
Refrain
The men of grace have found,
Glory begun below.
Celestial fruits on earthly ground
Celestial fruits on earthly ground
From faith and hope may grow,
From faith and hope may grow.
Refrain
The hill of Zion yields
A thousand sacred sweets
Before we reach the heav’nly fields,
Before we reach the heav’nly fields,
Or walk the golden streets,
Or walk the golden streets.
Refrain
Then let our songs abound,
And every tear be dry;
We’re marching through Immanuel’s ground,
We’re marching through Immanuel’s ground,
To fairer worlds on high,
To fairer worlds on high.
Refrain
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