Scripture Verse

Cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. Leviticus 25:9

Introduction

Words: Mrs. Ju­lia A. Will­iams. A ver­sion of these lyr­ics first ap­peared in Se­cond Ad­vent Hymns (Ex­et­er, New Hamp­shire: A. R. Brown, 1842). How­ev­er, the first source we’ve seen that cre­dits Will­iams as the au­thor is Glo­ry Songs, by Mrs. & Mrs. John T. Ben­son (Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see: Pen­te­cost­al Mis­sion Pub­lish­ing, 1916), num­ber 94, so pos­si­bly the 1916 ver­sion was Will­iams’ re­ar­range­ment of a text by ear­li­er au­thor.

Music: Jo­si­ah Lowe, in De­vo­tion­al Me­lo­dies, se­cond edi­tion, by Ab­ra­ham Stock­ton Jenks (Phi­la­del­phia, Penn­syl­vania: A. S. Jenks, 1859), page 162 (🔊 pdf nwc).

If you have a good pic­ture of Lowe or Will­iams (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els), or more in­for­ma­tion on the ori­gin of the ly­rics,

Lyrics

I ne­ver shall for­get the day
When Je­sus washed my sins away;
Oh! my soul was ve­ry hap­py;
Will you go along with me?
Oh! my soul was ve­ry hap­py;
Come and sound the ju­bi­lee!

I bur­dened was with sin and shame,
But Je­sus took away the stain.
And my soul was ve­ry hap­py,
Will you go along with me?
And my soul was ve­ry hap­py,
Come and sound the ju­bi­lee!

I’m going now to Heav’n above,
To sing the Sav­ior’s dy­ing love.
And my soul is ve­ry hap­py;
Will you go along with me?
Oh! my soul is ve­ry hap­py;
Come and sound the ju­bi­lee!

There’s fa­thers there, and mo­thers, too,
And don’t you want to go there, too?
Oh! your soul will be so hap­py,
Won’t you go along with me?
Oh! your soul will be so hap­py,
Come and sound the ju­bi­lee!