Watchman, Tell Me
- Words:
- S. S. Brewer
- Music:
- W. B. Bradbury
Sheet music
- 1Watchman, tell me, does the morningOf fair Zion’s glory dawn?Have the sips that mark His comingYet upon thy pathway shone?Pilgrims, yes! arise, look round thee;Light is breaking in the skies;Gird Thy bridal robes a round thee,Morning dawns, arise! arise!
- 2Watchman, see, the fight is beamingBrighter still upon thy way;Signs thru all the earth are gleaming,Omens of the coming dayWhen the Jubal trumpet, sounding,Shall a wake from land and seaAll the saints of God, now sleeping,Clad in immortality.
- 3Watchman, see, the land is nearing,With its vernal fruits and fow’rs;On, just yonder,– O how cheering!Bloom forever Eden’s bow’rs.Hark! the choral strains are ringing,Wafted on the balmy air;See the millions, hear them singing,Soon the pilgrim will be there.
In the hymnals
- The words are in 89 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.