Alleluia, Song Of Gladness
- Words:
- Early Latin
- Music:
- Essay on the Church Plain Chant
Sheet music
- 1Alleluia, song of gladness,Voice of joy that cannot die;Alleluia is the anthemEver dear to choirs on high;In the house of God abidingThus they sing eternally.
- 2Alleluia thou resoundest,True Jerusalem and free;Alleluia, joyful mother,All thy children sing with thee;But by Babylon’s sad watersMourning exiles now are we.
- 3Alleluia can not alwaysBe our song while here below;Alleluia our transgressionsMake us for a while forgo:For the solemn time is comingWhen our tears for sin must flow.
- 4Therefore in our hymns we pray Thee,Grant us, blessed Trinity,At the last to keep Thine EasterIn our home beyond the sky;There to Thee forever singingAlleluia joyfully.Amen.
In the hymnals
- The words are in 20 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.