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Text:Swing Open The Beautiful Gates
Author:David R. Piper
Tune:[Swing open thy gates, O Jerusalem]
Composer:John Daniel Patton
Media:MIDI file

9137. Swing Open The Beautiful Gates

1 Swing open thy gates, O Jerusalem,
For our Savior’s blood has been shed!
The promise lies yet in the future years,
When we all shall rise from the dead!

Refrain:
Swing open the beautiful gates of Heav’n,
The gates by the crystal sea!
Swing open the beautiful gates of Heav’n!
Swing open the gates for me!

2 Swing open the gates of the pearly hue,
The Savior is waiting within,
To welcome the homecoming throng of earth,
Who have been redeemed from all sin! [Refrain]

3 Swing open thy gates, city beautiful,
With thy wondrous pavements of gold!
The loved ones thou hast
With their foreheads crowned,
And their forms we long to behold. [Refrain]

4 Swing open thy gates, O Jerusalem,
For the Savior’s blood has been shed!
The promise lies yet in the future years,
When we all shall rise from the dead! [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: Swing open thy gates, O Jerusalem
Title: Swing Open The Beautiful Gates
Author: David R. Piper (1902)
Refrain First Line: Swing open the beautiful gates of Heav’n
Language: English
Source: Singing for Joy (Dalton, Ga: Anthony J. Showalter, 1902)
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: [Swing open thy gates, O Jerusalem]
Composer: John Daniel Patton
Key: A♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain



Media
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MIDI file: MIDI
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