SHALL WE GATHER AT THE RIVER | Gospel Hymn | LYRIC VIDEO | Don Salmon Music

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"Shall We Gather At The River" is a beautiful Hymn about Heaven! This glorious hymn has helped many believers in all seasons of their lives! It is also a popular hymn played at Funerals!

This hymn may have been your Mama's or even Grandma's favourite one, but this is NOT your Momma's version.

We have gone to the Islands! With cool breezes and laid back instruments revisioned this great hymn. Its a “Caribbean” style feel that will have your toes tapping as you sing along!

You can still hear the melody and the harmonies that may have thrilled the Matriarch's in your family, but we've spiced it up just a little. So much so, you can smell the scotch bonnets on the grill.

Ira Sankey wrote this about the hymn...
On a sultry afternoon in July, 1864, Dr. Lowry was sitting at his study table in Elliott Place, Brooklyn, when the words of the hymn, “Shall we gather at the river?” came to him. He recorded them hastily, and then sat down before his parlor organ and composed the tune which is now sung in all the Sunday-schools of the world. In speaking of the song, Dr. Lowry said:

“It is brass-band music, has a march movement, and for that reason has become popular, though, for myself, I do not think much of it. Yet on several occasions I have been deeply moved by the singing of this very hymn. Going from Harrisburg to Lewisburg once, I got into a car filled with half-drunken lumbermen. Suddenly one of them struck up, ‘Shall we gather at the river?’ and they sang it over and over again, repeating the chorus in a wild, boisterous way. I did not think so much of the music then, as I listened to those singers; but I did think that perhaps the spirit of the hymn, the words so flippantly uttered, might somehow survive and be carried forward into the lives of those careless men, and ultimately lift them upward to the realization of the hope expressed in the hymn.

A different appreciation of it was evinced during the Robert Raikes centennial [1880]. I was in London, and had gone to a meeting in the Old Bailey to see some of the most famous Sunday-school workers of the world. They were present from Europe, Asia, and America. I sat in a rear seat alone. After there had been a number of addresses delivered in various languages I was preparing to leave, when the chairman of the meeting announced that the author of ‘Shall we gather at the river?’ was present, and I was requested by name to come forward. Men applauded and women waved their handkerchiefs as I went to the platform. It was a tribute to the hymn; but I felt, after it was over, that I had perhaps done some little good in the world.”

Many stories have been told about this great hymn from tent meetings, gospel gatherings, and evangelical campaigns about how many souls came forward.

I hope this arrangement blesses you, and that you will sing along. Full lyrics at the bottom of the description…

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Shall We Gather At The River

Verse 1
Shall we gather at the river
Where bright angel feet have trod
With its crystal tide forever
Flowing by the throne of God

Chorus
Yes we'll gather at the river
The beautiful the beautiful river
Gather with the saints at the river
That flows by the throne of God

Verse 2
On the margin of the river
Washing up its silver spray
We will talk and worship ever
All the happy golden day

Verse 3
Ere we reach the shining river
Lay we ev’ry burden down
Grace our spirits will deliver
And provide a robe and crown

Verse 4
At the smiling of the river
Mirror of the Savior's face
Saints whom death will never sever
Lift their songs of saving grace

Verse 5
Soon we'll reach the shining river
Soon our pilgrimage will cease
Soon our happy hearts will quiver
With the melody of peace

Robert Lowry
© Words & Music: Public Domain
Arrangement & Video: Don Salmon Music