We Are Nearing Home chords by Sda Hymns

• Capo on 1st

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: Db

Difficulty: Novice

Aka, Just Over The Mountains

Words and Music by John R. Sweney
Arranged by C.P. Whitford
SDA Church Hymnal (1941) Hymn #642

Capo 1 (optional)


Verse 1:
C                              G7       C
Just over the mountains in the Promised Land,
C             Am            Dm    D7  G
Lies the holy city built by God’s own hand;
C                               F         C
As our weary footsteps gain the mountain’s crest,
G7     C        F            C  G7  C
We can view our homeland of eternal rest.

Refrain:
C          G7  C                 G7  C
We are nearing home!  We are nearing home!
C       F                                C
See the splendor gleaming from the domes afar!
C       G7                              C
See the glory streaming from the “gates ajar”
C                                   Fm C
There we soon will enter, nevermore to roam,
C        F                           D
Hear the angels singing!  We are nearing home!
D      G7      C
We are nearing home!


Verse 2:
C                                    G7        C
In the rolls of the prophets we have long been told
C                Am            Dm      D7 G
Of that wondrous city with its streets of gold;
C                               F      C
Now with raptured vision we can see it there,
G7       C        F              C  G7    C
With its walls of jasper and its mansions fair.


Refrain:
C          G7  C                 G7  C
We are nearing home!  We are nearing home!
C       F                                C
See the splendor gleaming from the domes afar!
C       G7                              C
See the glory streaming from the “gates ajar”
C                                   Fm C
There we soon will enter, nevermore to roam,
C        F                           D
Hear the angels singing!  We are nearing home!
D      G7      C
We are nearing home!


Verse 3:
C                                 G7       C
Those who enter that city are the faithful few
C                 Am                 Dm D7   G
Who keep God's commandments-faith of Je-sus, too;
C                                       F       C
There we'll lift our voices through the endless days,
G7       C        F               C      G7 C
In sweet songs of gladness and in psalms of praise.


Refrain:
C          G7  C                 G7  C
We are nearing home!  We are nearing home!
C       F                                C
See the splendor gleaming from the domes afar!
C       G7                              C
See the glory streaming from the “gates ajar”
C                                   Fm C
There we soon will enter, nevermore to roam,
C        F                           D
Hear the angels singing!  We are nearing home!
D      G7      C
We are nearing home!


Verse 4:
C                               G7      C
My brother, my sister, will you meet us there,
C               Am                      Dm D7 G
In that land of sunshine where there'll be no care?
C                               F      C
Accept of God's message, and to Him be true;
G7        C     F              C    G7  C
Then when Jesus cometh He will call for you.


Refrain:
C          G7  C                 G7  C
We are nearing home!  We are nearing home!
C       F                                C
See the splendor gleaming from the domes afar!
C       G7                              C
See the glory streaming from the “gates ajar”
C                                   Fm C
There we soon will enter, nevermore to roam,
C        F                           D
Hear the angels singing!  We are nearing home!
D      G7      C
We are nearing home!