#635 - Happy Day

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• Composer:
  • Anonymous
  • refrain: Edward Francis Rimbault

    • #394 - Bonnie Dundee
    • #635 - Happy Day

    (1816-1876)
• Also known as:
  • O Happy Day, That Fixed My Choice
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• Incipit: 51235123343213215123512334321321
• Condensed Incipit: 512351234321321512351234321321
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• Lyrics:
  O happy day, that fixed my choice
  On Thee, my Savior and my God!
  Well may this glowing heart rejoice,
  And tell its raptures all abroad.
  
  chorus:
  Happy day, happy day, when Jesus washed my sins away!
  He taught me how to watch and pray, and live rejoicing every day
  Happy day, happy day, when Jesus washed my sins away.
  
  O happy bond, that seals my vows
  To Him Who merits all my love!
  Let cheerful anthems fill His house,
  While to that sacred shrine I move.
  
  'Tis done: the great transaction's done!
  I am the Lord's and He is mine;
  He drew me, and I followed on;
  Charmed to confess the voice divine.
  
  Now rest, my long divided heart,
  Fixed on this blissful center, rest.
  Here have I found a nobler part;
  Here heavenly pleasures fill my breast.
  
  High heaven, that heard the solemn vow,
  That vow renewed shall daily hear,
  Till in life's latest hour I bow
  And bless in death a bond so dear.
  
  
  • Philip Doddridge

    • #635 - Happy Day
    • #660 - Silver Street

    (1702-1751)