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Bound for the Land of Canaan (Version 2)
See Also: Bound for the Land of Canaan (Version 1) Elder Jacob Knapp
Unknown Southern gospel hymn
ARTIST: "Bound for the Land of Canaan" (Version 2) Mount Carmel Baptist Church Choir, Fort Payne Alabama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuvwwcUZeK8&feature=related
Version 1-folk-hymn attributed to Elder Jacob Knapp- 1842
http://books.google.com/books?id=F5JMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA10&dq=Bound+for+Canaan+land&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html
CATEGORY: Traditional Shape-Note Gospel;
DATE: Version 1 Published 1842;
RECORDING INFO: Bound for the Land of Canaan
Revival Melodies, or, Songs of Zion; Page 11; Boston Massachusetts 1842
OTHER NAMES: "How Happy Is The Pilgrim's Lot"
RELATED TO: "Bound for Canaan's Land" "Bound for The Promised Land"
SOURCES: Revival Melodies, or, Songs of Zion; Page 11; Boston Massachusetts 1842
NOTES: "Bound for the Land of Canaan" (Version 2) is a Southern gospel hymn that appears on several on-line sites and on youtube with a performance of the Mount Carmel Baptist Church Choir, Fort Payne Alabama (see link above).
"Bound for the Land of Canaan" (Version 1) appears in Revival Melodies, or, Songs of Zion; Page 11; published in Boston, Massachusetts in 1842. It is an excellent early call and response type folk-hymn. Another set of lyrics is given under the title, "How Happy Is The Pilgrim's Lot." A relationship with the African-American spiritual "Bound for Cannaan Land" can be made as this song is in the call-and-reponse spiritual form.
Bound for the Land of Canaan - Version 1 by Rev. Elder Jacob Knapp from Revival Melodies, or, Songs of Zion; Page 11; Boston, Massachusetts, 1842.
1. Together let us sweetly live.
I am bound for the land of Canaan;
Together let us sweetly die,
I am bound for the land of Canaan.
CHORUS: O Canaan, bright Canaan,
I am bound for the land of Canaan;
O Canaan, it is my happy home,
I am bound for the land of Canaan.
2. If you get there before I do,
I am bound for the land of Canaan;
Look out for me I'm coming too,
I am bound for the land of Canaan.
3. I have some friends before me gone,
I am bound for the land of Canaan;
And I'm resolved to travel on,
I am bound for the land of Canaan.
4. Our songs of praise shall fill the skies,
I am bound for the land of Canaan;
While higher still our joys they rise,
I am bound for the land of Canaan.
I'm Bound For the Land of Caanan- Version 2
I have started for a city on that bright eternal shore
Where the saints of God shall gather and live on forevermore
Tis a land of love and purity where my possessions lie
And I am bound for the land of Canaan when I die (when I die)
Chorus: Oh yes I’m bound (bound for the land of Canaan)
For the land of Canaan (Canaan yes I am)
By the love and grace of God (love of God)
That city I’m gainin’ (I am gaining ground)
Some happy day (some happy day)
With all the ransomed I’ll stand
And sing His praise way over in Canaan’s happy land (happy land)
Oh the land of rest eternal where the living waters flow
Ev’ry day I’m one day nearer to its portals, this I know.
Some sweet morning I’ll be singing “Glory, glory” to the Lamb
For I am bound for the land of Canaan yes I am (yes I am)
Repeat Chorus (x2)
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