Monday, March 20, 2017

The Stanley Brothers covering Horatius Bonar - "A Few More Years Shall Roll"

At first it might seem an unlikely combination, rural Virginia bluegrass legends the Stanley Brothers' recording of their version of a hymn which was written in 1843 by the prolific Edinburgh-based Free Church minister Horatius Bonar whose own denomination wouldn't sing his compositions as they were a Psalms-only church. This was one of his first pieces, written while a 34 year old Sunday School teacher. Go to 6:57 –

A few more years shall roll, A few more seasons shall come,
And we shall be with those that rest, Asleep within the tomb;

Refrain:
Then, O my Lord, prepare My soul for that great day.
O wash me in that precious blood, And take my sins all away.

A few more meetings here Shall cheer us on our way,
And we shall reach the endless rest, on that eternal day

Refrain:
Then, O my Lord, prepare My soul for that great day.
O wash me in that precious blood, And take my sins all away.
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Bonar’s other verses were:

A few more suns shall set O’er these dark hills of time,
And we shall be where suns are not A far serener clime: 

A few more storms shall beat On this wild rocky shore,
And we shall be where tempests cease, And surges swell no more

A few more struggles here, A few more partings o’er,
A few more toils, a few more tears, And we shall weep no more

’Tis but a little while, And He shall come again
Who died that we might live, who lives That we with Him may reign

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