Come, Ye Thankful People, Come

Words:
Henry Alford
Music:
George J. Elvey

Sheet music

  1. 1Come, ye thankful people, come,Raise the song of harvest-home:All is safely gathered in,Ere the winter storms begin;God, our Maker, doth provideFor our wants to be supplied;Come to God’s own temple, come,Raise the song of harvest-home.
  2. 2All the world is God’s own field,Fruit unto His praise to yield;Wheat and tares together sown,Unto joy or sorrow grown;First the blade, and then the ear,Then the full corn shall appear;Lord of harvest, grant that weWholesome grain and pure may be.
  3. 3For the Lord our God shall come,And shall take His harvest-home;From His field shall in that dayAll offenses purge away;Give His angels charge at lastIn the fire the tares to cast;But the fruitful ears to storeIn His garner evermore.
  4. 4Even so, Lord, quickly comeTo Thy final harvest-home;Gather Thou Thy people in,Free from sorrow, free from sin;There, forever purified,In Thy presence to abide:Come, with all Thine angels, come,Raise the glorious harvest-home.

In the hymnals

  • Written in 1844, the words are in 813 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.

← Back to today's verse