Beautiful Home
- Words:
- B. B. Edmiaston
- Music:
- John T. Cotton
Sheet music
- 1Beautiful land of light, beautiful home so bright,Waiting for all the saved over the sea;Burdens we shall lay down, ever to wear a crown,With the redeemed of earth, happy and free.(Beautiful home of light and love,)Home of light and love,(Beautiful city built above,)City built above,(Beautiful crowns we there shall wear,)Crowns we there shall wear,(Decked with immortal jewels rare;)Decked with jewels rare;
- 2Beautiful songs(Beautiful songs with saints we shall sing,) with saints we shall sing(Beautiful songs with saints we shall sing,)Praising our great(Praising our great Redeemer and King,)Redeemer and King.(Redeemer and King.)(Beautiful home of light and love,)Home of light and love,(Beautiful city built above,)City built above,(Beautiful crowns we there shall wear,)Crowns we there shall wear,(Decked with immortal jewels rare;)Decked with jewels rare;
- 3Beautiful songs we'll sing unto our Lord and King,Praising the Savior dear,'round the great throne;Friends we shall meet again; free from all care and pain,We shall abide with Jesus and His own.(Beautiful home of light and love,)Home of light and love,(Beautiful city built above,)City built above,(Beautiful crowns we there shall wear,)Crowns we there shall wear,(Decked with immortal jewels rare;)Decked with jewels rare;
- 4Glorious tho’t of home, when He shall bid us come;Glorious ransom theSavior has made;Spread the glad news each day, tell it along the way,He a great price for our freedom has paid.(Beautiful home of light and love,)Home of light and love,(Beautiful city built above,)City built above,(Beautiful crowns we there shall wear,)Crowns we there shall wear,(Decked with immortal jewels rare;)Decked with jewels rare;
In the hymnals
- The words are in 5 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.