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Text:Break Your Pitchers!
Author:A. W. S.
Tune:[Do you know the story of Gideon's band]
Composer:Arthur W. Spooner

358. Break Your Pitchers!

1 Do you know the story of Gideon's band;
In the name of the Lord how they dared to stand?
How they drove God's enemies out of the land,
With their broken pitchers and their trumpets?

Chorus:
Then break your pitchers!
Blow your trumpets!
Dare for God to stand!
Break your pitchers!
Blow your trumpets!
Be a Gideon's band!

2 Far down in the valley the enemy lay,
Like the sands of the sea without number, they say,-
But the brave three hundred soon drove them away
With their broken pitchers and their trumpets! [Chorus]

3 Can't you hear God calling for Gideon's band?
Who shall dare in the name of the Lord to stand?
Who shall face the foe with a courage grand,
With their broken pitchers and their trumpets? [Chorus]

Text Information
First Line: Do you know the story of Gideon's band
Title: Break Your Pitchers!
Author: A. W. S.
Refrain First Line: Then break your pitchers!
Language: English
Publication Date: 1916
Topic: Patriotic and Temperance
Copyright: Copyright, 1917, by E.O. Excell. Words and Music.
Notes: Public Domain.
Tune Information
Name: [Do you know the story of Gideon's band]
Composer: Arthur W. Spooner
Key: A♭ Major
Copyright: Copyright, 1917, by E.O. Excell. Words and Music.
Notes: Public Domain.



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