Earlier this week I linked to Rise O Buried Lord, an Easter themed album of rearranged and retuned hymns.
The album closes with Christian Gellert’s Jesus Lives, And So Shall I set to an arrangement of the tune Wild Mountain Time. You may recall this same folk tune featured in the Christmas Songs post for In A Byre Near Bethlehem.
I liked the tune then, and being unfamiliar with these words in any other setting, was pleased to find it being used again.
I’ve put the lyrics from a more usual hymn setting here.
Listen to Knoxville Redeemer & Friends recording to see how they’ve slightly rearranged the lyrics to marry them with this tune.
1
Jesus lives, and so shall I.
Death! thy sting is gone forever.
He, who deigned for me to die,
lives the bands of death to sever.
He shall raise me with the just;
Jesus is my Hope and Trust.
2
Jesus lives and reigns supreme;
and, his kingdom still remaining,
I shall also be with him,
ever living, ever reigning.
God has promised: be it must;
Jesus is my Hope and Trust.
3
Jesus lives, I know full well,
naught from him my heart can sever,
life nor death nor power of hell,
joy nor grief henceforth forever.
None of all his saints is lost;
Jesus is my Hope and Trust.
Jesus is my hope and trust.
4
Jesus lives and death is now
but my entrance into glory.
Courage then, my soul, for thou
hast a crown of life before thee;
thou shalt find thy hopes were just;
Jesus is the Christian’s Trust.
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