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AcaDisc #61- Acappella America by The Acappella Company (The Series)
Original Release: 1992 Word, Inc.
Available through The Acappella
Company
Producer: Keith Lancaster
Production Assistant: Gary
Miller and Larry Sparks
Engineers: Gary Miller, John Laws, Gary Miner,
and Russell Lamb
Assistant Engineers: Paul Sale and Max
Plaster
Recording Studio: Clifty Studios- Paris, TN
Mastered by:
Hank Williams at Master Mix
Cover Design: Tufts Design
Studio
Illustration: Todd Tufts
Vocals: Listed by Song
Note:
Southwestern Christian College Chorus is directed by Veronica Williams.
America
Battle Hymn of the
Republic
God of Our
Fathers
God Bless
America
Eternal
Father
The Star-Spangled
Banner
America
Medley
My Country 'Tis of
Thee
Lift Every
Voice
He's Got the Whole World
in His Hands
God Bless the
USA
Words: Katharine Lee Bates (1893)
Music: Samuel Ward
(1882)
Arrangement: Keith Lancaster © 1992 Anthony K. Music
(ASCAP)
Vocals: Wayburn Dean, George Pendergrass, Duane Adams, Gary
Moyers, Keith Lancaster, Gary Miller, Southwestern Christian College
Chorus
Lead: Wayburn Dean
Sample: Windows
Media
Video: Windows Media
(broadband connection needed)
Lyrics:
O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain (amber waves
of grain)
For purple mountain majesties above the fruited
plain!
America! (America) America! God shed His grace on thee (shed His
grace on thee)
And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining
sea
O beautiful (O beautiful) for patriot dream (for patriot dream) that
sees beyond the years (that sees beyond the years)
Thine alabaster
cities gleam - undimmed by human tears!
America! America! God shed His
grace on thee (shed His grace on thee)
And crown thy good with
brotherhood, with brotherhood from sea to shining sea
America! America!
God shed His grace, God shed His grace (shed His grace) on thee (on thee,
on thee, on thee), America!
Scriptural Reference:
"You have not handed me over to the enemy but have set my feet in a spacious place." Psalm 31:8
Words: Julia Ward Howe (1862)
Music: William Steffe
(1862)
Arrangement: Keith Lancaster © 1992 Anthony K. Music
(ASCAP)
Vocals: John Green, Wes McKinzie, Gary Miller, John Laws, Max
Plaster, and Southwestern Christian College Chorus
Lead: John
Green
Sample: Windows
Media
Lyrics:
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
He is
trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored
He hath
loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword
His truth is
marching on
Chorus 1:
Glory, glory, hallelujah
Glory, glory,
hallelujah
Glory, glory, hallelujah
His truth is marching on
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never sound retreat
He
is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment seat
O be swift,
my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on
Repeat Chorus
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea
With a
glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me
As He died to make men
holy, let us teach to make men free
While God is marching on
Chorus 2:
Glory, glory, hallelujah
Glory, glory,
hallelujah
Glory, glory, hallelujah
While God is marching on
Help me choir...
Repeat Chorus 2
His truth is marching on
Scriptural Reference:
"The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life." Matthew 27:52
Words: Daniel C. Roberts (1876)
Music: George W. Warren
(1888)
Arrangement: Gary Moyers © 1992 Anthony K. Music (ASCAP)
This
song also appeared on Memories by The Sounds of
Glory.
Vocals: Gary Moyers and Duane Adams
Lead: Gary
Moyers
Sample: Windows
Media
Lyrics:
God of our fathers, whose almighty hand…
God of our fathers, whose
almighty hand
Leads forth in beauty all the starry band
Of shining
worlds in splendor thro' the skies
Our grateful songs before thy throne
arise
Thy love divine hath led us in the past
In this free land by
thee our lot is cast
Be thou our ruler, guardian, guide, and
stay
Thy word our laws, thy path our chosen way
From war's alarms,
from deadly pestilence
Be thy strong arm our ever sure defense
Thy
true religion in our hearts increase
Thy bounteous goodness nourish us
in peace
Refresh thy people on their toilsome way (on their toilsome
way)
Lead us from night to never-ending day
Fill all our lives with
love and grace divine (glory, laud, and praise)
And glory, laud and
praise be ever thine (ever, ever glory thine)
Amen, Amen (amen)
Scriptural Reference:
“O Lord , God of our fathers, are you not the God who is in heaven? You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. Power and might are in your hand, and no one can withstand you.” 2 Chronicles 20:6
Words and music: Irving Berlin (1918) © 1938-39 Irving
Berlin Music Co. (ASCAP)
Vocals: George Pendergrass, Gary Miller, John
Laws, Keith Lancaster, and Southwestern Christian College Chorus
Lead:
George Pendergrass (second time through verse)
Sample: Windows
Media
Lyrics:
God bless America, land that I love
Stand beside her and
guide her
Thru the night with a light from above
From the mountains
(from the mountains) to the prairies (to the prairies)
To the oceans
(to the oceans) white with foam (white with foam)
God bless America, my
home sweet home
God bless America, my home sweet home
Chorus:
God bless, God bless America (America)
God
bless, God bless America (America)
Repeat Chorus (x2)
America
God bless America, land that I love
Stand beside her and
guide her
Thru the night with a light from above
From the mountains
(from the mountains) to the prairies (to the prairies)
To the oceans
(to the oceans) white with foam (white with foam)
God bless America
(God bless America), my home sweet home (my home sweet home)
God bless
America (God bless America), my home sweet home
Scriptural Reference:
"The Lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The Lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you." Deuteronomy 28:8
Words and music: Traditional
Arrangement: Keith Lancaster © 1992
Anthony K. Music (ASCAP)
Vocals: Gary Moyers, Gary Miller, and Keith
Lancaster
Lead: Gary Moyers
Sample: Windows
Media
Lyrics:
Eternal Father, strong to save, whose arms hath bound the restless
wave
Who bids the mighty ocean deep its own appointed limits keep
O
hear us when we cry to thee for those in peril on the sea
O Christ, the Lord of hill and plain o'er which our traffic runs
a-main
By mountain pass or valley low: wherever Lord, our brethren
go
Protect them by thy guarding hand from every peril on the land
O spirit, whom the Father sent to spread abroad the firmament
O wind
of heaven, by thy might save all who dare the eagle's flight
And keep
them by thy watchful care from every peril in the air
O trinity of love and power, our brethren shield in danger's
hour
From rock and tempest, fire and foe, protect them where-so-e'er
they go
Thus ever-more shall rise to thee glad praise from air and land
and sea
Scriptural Reference:
"May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word." 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17
Words : Francis Scott Key (1814)
Music: Traditional
Arrangement:
Keith Lancaster © 1992 Anthony K. Music (ASCAP)
Vocals: Wayburn Dean,
George Pendergrass, Duane Adams, Gary Moyers, Gary Miller, John Laws, and
Jay Smith
Lead: George Pendergrass
Sample: Windows
Media
Lyrics:
Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we
hailed at the twilights last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright
stars thro' the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so
gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting
(bursting, bursting) in air
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag
was still there
Oh say, does that Star-spangled Banner yet wave
O'er
the land of the free and the home of the brave (home of the brave)?
Scriptural Reference:
"You of this generation, consider the word of the Lord : 'Have I been a desert to Israel or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, 'We are free to roam; we will come to you no more'?'" Jeremiah 2:31
Words, music, and vocals: See "America," "Battle Hymn of the Republic,"
"Lift Every Voice," "The Star-Spangled Banner," and "God of Our
Fathers"
Arrangement: Keith Lancaster, Gary Moyers, and Wayburn Dean ©
1992 Anthony K. Music (ASCAP)
Lead: Wayburn Dean, John K. Green, George
Pendergrass, and Gary Moyers
Sample: Windows
Media
Lyrics:
O beautiful for patriot dream that sees beyond the years (that sees
beyond the years)
Thine alabaster cities gleam - undimmed by human
tears!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee (shed His grace on
thee)
And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea
Glory, glory, hallelujah
(Oh) Glory, glory, hallelujah
(Oh)
Glory, glory, hallelujah
His truth is marching on
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea
With a
glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me
As He died to make men
holy, let us teach to make men free
While God is marching on
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us
Sing
a song full of hope that the present has brought us
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting (bursting, bursting) in
air
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there
Oh say,
does that Star-spangled Banner yet wave
And glory, laud and praise be ever thine (ever, ever glory
thine)
Amen, Amen (amen)
America! America! God shed His grace, God shed His grace (shed His grace) on thee (on thee, on thee, on thee), America!
Scriptural Reference:
"The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died
were raised to life." Matthew 27:52
"You of this generation,
consider the word of the Lord : 'Have I been a desert to Israel or a land
of great darkness? Why do my people say, 'We are free to roam; we will
come to you no more'?'" Jeremiah 2:31
Words: Samuel Francis Smith and Henry van Dyke
Music:
Traditional
Arrangement: Max Plaster and Gary Miller © 1992 Anthony K.
Music (ASCAP)
Vocals: Max Plaster, Gary Miller, John Laws, and Brian
Randolph
Lead: Max Plaster
Sample: Windows
Media
Lyrics:
My country 'tis of thee sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing
Land
where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride
From every mountain
side let freedom ring!
Let music, swell the breeze, and ring from all the trees, sweet
freedom's song
Let mortal tongues awake, let all that breathe
partake
Let rocks their silence break, the sound prolong
Our fathers' God to thee, author of liberty, to thee we sing
Long
may our land be bright with freedom's holy light
Protect us by thy
might, Great God our King!
From every mountain side let freedom ring! Ring!
Scriptural Reference:
"Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each one of you is to return to his family property and each to his own clan." Leviticus 25:10
Words and music: Traditional
Arrangement: Wayburn Dean ©
1992 Anthony K. Music (ASCAP)
This song also appeared on Acappella
Favorites by The Acappella Company and Hear It In Our
Voice by The Acappella Company.
Vocals: Wayburn Dean, Jay
Smith, John Green, George Pendergrass, Pam Pendergrass, Darnella Dean,
Duane Adams, John Laws, and Southwestern Christian College Chorus
Lead:
George Pendergrass, Wayburn Dean, John Green, and Jay Smith
Sample: Windows
Media
Video: Windows
Media (broadband connection needed)
Lyrics:
(Let freedom ring in every nation)
Lift every voice and
sing till earth and heaven ring
Ring with the harmonies of
liberty
Let our rejoicing rise high as the, high as the listening
skies
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea
(Let our rejoicing rise)
God of our weary years, God of
our silent tears
Thou who has brought us thus far on our way
Thou
who has by thy might led us into the light
Keep us forever (never lead
us, stay beside us) in thy path (walkin' in the path, that's where we are
gonna pray) we pray
(God who led us to the light, keep us forever)
Sing (let
freedom ring) a song (let freedom ring)
Full of the faith (let freedom
ring) that the dark past (let a freedom ring) has taught us
Sing a song
Full of the hope that the present has brought us
Facing the rising sun (the sun, the sun, the sun) of our new
day begun (of our new day begun)
Let us march on (march on, march on,
march on) till victory is won
Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring
Til
it rings, ring with the harmonies of liberty
Let our rejoicing rise
high as the listening skies
Let it resound (let it resound) loud as the
rolling sea
Let freedom ring (x5)
Freedom is ringing
Let freedom
ring
Praise the Lord the victory's won
Scriptural Reference:
"Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices; together they shout for joy. When the Lord returns to Zion, they will see it with their own eyes." Isaiah 52:8
He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
Words and music: Traditional
Arrangement: Gary Miller © 1992 Anthony
K. Music (ASCAP)
Vocals: George Pendergrass, Gary Miller, Wayburn Dean,
Southwestern Christian College Chorus,
Children Chorus: Tasha Hatcher,
Tanah Hatcher, Gretchen Miller, Ellie Miller, Nathan Miller, Rhea Dean,
Brent Dean, Melissa Lancaster, Kimberly Lancaster
Female Chorus: Sharon
Lancaster, Sandra Hatcher, Linda Sparks, Dee Laws, Tisha Hatcher, DeLisa
DuBose, Kimberly Sparks
Lead: George Pendergrass
Sample: Windows
Media
Lyrics:
Chorus:
He's got the whole world in His hands
He's got the whole
world in His hands
He's got the whole world in His hands
He's got
the whole world in His hands
He's got the wind and the rain in His hands
He's got the wind and
the rain in His hands
He's got the wind and the rain in His
hands
He's got the whole world in His hands
Chorus 2:
He's got the whole world (whole world, whole world, whole
world) in His hands
He's got the whole world (whole world, whole world,
whole world) in His hands
He's got the whole world (whole world, whole
world, whole world) in His hands
He's got the whole world in His hands
He's got you and me brother in His hands
He's got you and me brother
in His hands
He's got you and me brother in His hands
He's got the
whole world in His hands (in His hands, world in His hands)
Chorus 3:
He's got the whole world (whole world, whole world, whole
world) in His hands
He's got the whole world (whole world, whole world,
whole world) in His hands
He's got the whole world (whole world, whole
world, whole world) in His hands
He's got the whole world in His hands
(in His hands, world in His hands)
He's got the precious little children in His hands
He's got the
precious little children in His hands
He's got the precious little
children in His hands
He's got the whole world in His hands (in His
hands, world in His hands)
Chorus 4:
He's got the whole world (He's got the whole wide world)
in His hands
He's got the whole world (He's got the whole wide world)
in His hands
He's got the whole world (He's got the whole wide world)
in His hands
He's got the whole world in His hands
He's got everybody here in His hands
He's got everybody here in His
hands
He's got everybody here in His hands
He's got the whole world
in His hands
Repeat Chorus 4 (x3 and fade)
Scriptural Reference:
"The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands." John 3:35
Words and music: Lee Greenwood © 1984 Music Corporation of America,
Inc. and Songs of Polygram International Inc. (BMI) Adm. By MCA Music
Publishing (a div. Of MCA, Inc.)
This song also appeared on Travelin'
Shoes by Acappella.
Vocals: Keith Lancaster, George
Pendergrass, Wes McKinzie, Brian Randolph, Max Plaster, Jay Smith, John
Green, Southwestern Christian College Chorus, and Gary
Miller
Lead: Keith Lancaster and George Pendergrass
Sample: Windows
Media
Lyrics:
If tomorrow all the things were gone I'd worked for all my life
And
I had to start again with just my children and my wife
I'd thank my
heavenly Father to be living here today (I know I'm free)
'Cause the
flag still stand for freedom and they can't take that away
Chorus 1:
And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm
free
And I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to
me
And I'd gladly stand up (next to you) next to you and defend her
still today
'Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land (love this
land), God bless the USA
God bless the USA
God bless the USA
From the lakes of Minnesota, to the hills of Tennessee
Across the
plains of Texas, from sea to shining sea
From Detroit down to Houston,
and New York to L.A.
Yes there's pride in every American heart and it's
time we stand and say
Repeat Chorus 1
Chorus 2:
And I'm proud to be an American, (least I know I'm free)
where at least I know I'm free (men who died for me)
And I won't forget
the men who died (gave that right to me) who gave that right to me
And
I'd gladly stand up (next to you) next to you and defend her still
today
'Cause there ain't no doubt, no doubt that I love this land (love
this land), God bless the USA
God bless the USA (my God, my God blessed the U, the USA)
Scriptural Reference:
"But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it--he will be blessed in what he does." James 1:25
Special thanks for additions and/or corrections to: Jeff Frank and Rob Sellers
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