Angel Band

About Angel Band

"Angel Band" is an American gospel music song. The lyrics – a poem written in common metre – were originally titled "My Latest Sun Is Sinking Fast," and were written by Jefferson Hascall (sometimes found as Haskell in hymnals). The lyric was first set in J. W. Dadmun's tunebook The Melodeon in 1860, to a tune by Dadmun. These words, being in common metre, could be sung to many hymn tunes, but the tune now universally associated them is by William Batchelder Bradbury, and was published in Bradbury's Golden Shower of S. S. Melodies in 1862. Bradbury's song was originally titled "The Land of Beulah." "Angel Band" became widely known in the 19th century, both in folk traditions and in published form, e.g. William Walker's Christian Harmony of 1866, and has been recorded by many artists, probably most famously by the Stanley Brothers, Emmylou Harris, and by the Monkees. The Stanley Brothers version is included on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack album (2000). more »

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By Michael Nesmith
My latest sun is sinking fast,
My race is nearly run,
My strongest trials now have passed,
My triumph is begun.
Oh, come, angel band,
Come and around me, stand,
Oh, bear me away on your snow-white wings
To my immortal home,
Oh, bear me away on your snow-white wings
To my immortal home.
Oh, bear my longing heart to Him
Who bled and died for me,
Whose blood now cleanses from all sin
And brings me victory.
Oh, come, angel band,
Come and around me, stand,
Oh, bear me away on your snow-white wings
To my immortal home,
Oh, bear me away on your snow-white wings
To my immortal home.
Oh, come, angel band,
Come and around me, stand,
Oh, bear me away on your snow-white wings
To my immortal home,
Oh, bear me away on your snow-white wings
To my immortal home.
Oh, come, angel band,
Come and around me, stand,
Oh, bear me away on your snow-white wings
To my immortal home,
Oh, bear me away on your snow-white wings
To my immortal home.
Fade out...

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The Monkees

The Monkees are an American pop band that released music under their original incarnation between 1966 and 1970, with subsequent reunion albums and tours in the decades that followed. Assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 by Robert "Bob" Rafelson and Bert Schneider for the American television series The Monkees, which aired from 1966–1968, the musical acting quartet was composed of Americans Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork, and Englishman Davy Jones. The band's music was initially supervised by producer Don Kirshner. more »

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