Introduction
(1878–1940)
Words: Jennie Wilson, in The Best Gospel Songs and Their Composers (Dalton, Georgia: A. J. Showalter, 1904), number 208.
Music: Claude H. Bottoms (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a better photo of Bottoms,
A pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Revelation 22:1
Words: Jennie Wilson, in The Best Gospel Songs and Their Composers (Dalton, Georgia: A. J. Showalter, 1904), number 208.
Music: Claude H. Bottoms (🔊 pdf nwc).
If you know where to get a better photo of Bottoms,
In the heavenly clime
We shall meet some time,
Beside the beautiful river;
We shall find the joy
That has no alloy,
Beside the beautiful river.
Refrain
Beside the beautiful river we’ll stray,
In the glorious light of eternity’s day;
And with saved ones we’ll praise
Our Redeemer for aye,
Beside the beautiful river.
With the pure and blest
We shall sweetly rest,
Beside the beautiful river;
With all conflicts o’er,
Trials come no more,
Beside the beautiful river.
Refrain
We shall learn the song
Of the blood-ashed throng,
Beside the beautiful river;
While long ages roll,
We shall Christ extol
Beside the beautiful river.
Refrain