We Are Nearing Home Chords

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!