Come, Ye Thankful People, Come is most often sung in the United States at Thanksgiving. It’s a harvest-is-over song that uses bringing the crop from the fields as an illustration of God bringing His saints home after they’ve completed their earthly responsibilities.
This is our arrangement of this hymn for eight handbells and piano.
Come, ye thankful people, come, / raise the song of harvest home;
all is safely gathered in, / ere the winter storms begin.
God our Maker doth provide / for our wants to be supplied;
come to God’s own temple, come, / raise the song of harvest home.
All the world is God’s own field, / fruit as praise to God we yield;
wheat and tares together sown / are to joy or sorrow grown;
first the blade and then the ear, / then the full corn shall appear;
Lord of harvest, grant that we / wholesome grain and pure may be.
For the Lord our God shall come, / and shall take the harvest home;
from the field shall in that day / all offenses purge away,
giving angels charge at last / in the fire the tares to cast;
but the fruitful ears to store / in the garner evermore.
Even so, Lord, quickly come, / bring thy final harvest home;
gather thou thy people in, / free from sorrow, free from sin,
there, forever purified, / in thy presence to abide;
come, with all thine angels, come, / raise the glorious harvest home.
The eight bells in the score are accompanied by piano; if you don’t happen to have an accompanist available, we also have an accompaniment MP3 available for purchase.
Church Calendar: Harvest/Thanksgiving
Hymn tune: ST. GEORGE’S WINDSOR
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| Eight Handbells with Piano Accompaniment: | ||
| Score Package: | $10.00 US | |
| Piano Accompaniment MP3: | $4.00 US |
Purchasing this 8-bell arrangement gives you permission to print and maintain up to four copies for your handbell group (plus the accompaniment/instrumental score(s), if part of the purchase) – so you only need to pay once. Purchase also gives permission for performance, broadcasting, live-streaming and video-sharing online. See our licensing agreement for full details, and please remember to mention the title and arranger of the piece on video-sharing sites, social media and any printed materials such as concert programs.
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