There Is A Happy Land Far Far Away - Folk Song Spiritual - Clawhammer Banjo & Vocal

There Is A Happy Land Far Far Away, also known as, There Is A Happy Land is a spiritual. I play and sing it on a mountain banjo in the clawhammer banjo style.

There Is a Happy Land - lyrics
Andrew Young, 1838
Copyright: Public Domain
Main subject: Heaven
Scripture: Psalm 149:5; Revelation 21:4
Banjo in standard tuning only way down to the key of B
performed and arranged by Dan D. Dirges

There is a happy land, far, far away,
Where saints in glory stand, bright, bright as day;
Oh, how they sweetly sing, worthy is our Savior King,
Loud let His praises ring, praise, praise for aye.

Come to that happy land, come, come away;
Why will you doubting stand, why still delay?
Oh, we shall happy be, when from sin and sorrow free,
Lord, we shall live with Thee, blest, blest for aye.

Bright, in that happy land, beams every eye;
Kept by a Father’s hand, love cannot die;
Oh, then to glory run; be a crown and kingdom won;
And, bright, bright above the sun, we reign for aye.

There is a happy land, Come to that happy land
Oh, we shall happy be, when from sin and sorrow free,
Lord, we shall live with Thee, blest, blest for aye.

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Revelation 21:4

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.