Hymn

ENGLISH LYRICS: Alleluia, song of sweetness

I heard a great voice of many people in heaven saying Hallelujah. Rev. 19:1

1.  Alleluia, song of sweetness,
    Voice of joy that cannot die;
    Alleluia is the anthem
    Ever dear to choirs on high;
    In the house of God abiding
    Thus they sing eternally.

2. Alleluia, Church victorious,
    Thou may'st lift the joyful strain,
    Alleluia, songs of triumph
    Well befit the ransom'd train,
    Faint and feeble are our praises
    While in exile we remain.

3. Alleluia may not always
    Be our song while here below;
    Alleluia, our transgressions,
    Make us for a while forego;
    For the solemn time is coming
    When our tears for sin must flow.

4. Therefore in our hymns we pray Thee
    Grant us, Blessed Trinity,
    At the last to keep Thine Easter
    In our Home beyond the sky,
    There to Thee for ever singing
    Alleluia joyfully.

Amen.

YORUBA LYRICS: Aleluya! Orin t’o dun

Mo gbohun nla kan ti opolopo eniyan Lorun, wipe Aleluya. Ifi 19:1

1. Aleluya! Orin t’o dun,
   Ohun ayo ti ki ku;
   Aleluya! Orin didun,
   T'awon t’o wa lorun fe;
   N’ile ti Olorun mi ngbe
   Ni won nko tosantoru

2. Aleluya! Ijo t’orun,
   E le korin ayo na
   Aleluya! Orin ‘Segun
   Ye awon ta rapada
   Awa ero at’alejo
   Iyin wa ko nilari

3. Aleluya! Orin ayo
   Ko ye wa nigba gbogbo
   Aleluya! Ohun aro,
   Da mo orin ayo wa;
   Gba t’awa laye osi yi
   A ni gbawe f’ese wa

4. Iyin dapo m’adura wa
   Gbo tiwa, Metalokan!
   Mu wa de ‘waju Re layo
   K’ar’ Od’aguntan t’a pa
   K’a le ma ko Aleluya
   Nibe lae ati laelae
AMIN

TONIC SOLFA

Key: F Major

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Composed by John Mason Neale