We Are Nearing Home Chords - SDA Hymns

Verse 1

C# G#7 C# Just over the mountains in the Promised Land, C# A#m D#m D#7 G# Lies the holy city built by God’s own hand; C# F# C# As our weary footsteps gain the mountain’s crest, G#7 C# F# C# G#7 C# We can view our homeland of eternal rest.

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C# G#7 C# G#7 C# We are nearing home! We are nearing home! C# F# C# See the splendor gleaming from the domes afar! C# G#7 C# See the glory streaming from the “gates ajar” C# F#m C# There we soon will enter, nevermore to roam, C# F# D# Hear the angels singing! We are nearing home! D# G#7 C# We are nearing home!

Verse 2

C# G#7 C# In the rolls of the prophets we have long been told C# A#m D#m D#7 G# Of that wondrous city with its streets of gold; C# F# C# Now with raptured vision we can see it there, G#7 C# F# C# G#7 C# With its walls of jasper and its mansions fair.

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Verse 3

C# G#7 C# Those who enter that city are the faithful few C# A#m D#m D#7 G# Who keep God's commandments-faith of Je-sus, too; C# F# C# There we'll lift our voices through the endless days, G#7 C# F# C# G#7 C# In sweet songs of gladness and in psalms of praise.

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Verse 4

C# G#7 C# My brother, my sister, will you meet us there, C# A#m D#m D#7 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; G#7 C# F# C# G#7 C# Then when Jesus cometh He will call for you.

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