{"id":21345,"date":"2022-11-12T21:18:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T20:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/?p=175740"},"modified":"2022-11-16T21:45:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:45:09","slug":"come-ye-thankful-people-come-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/come-ye-thankful-people-come-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Come ye thankful people come\u2019 lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Published: Saturday, 12 November 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Henry Alford wrote the hymn \u2018Come, ye thankful people, come\u2019 in 1844 to celebrate the harvest. Today it is often sung at harvest festivals and thanksgiving services to the tune \u00a0St. George\u2019s Windsor, composed<\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0George Job Elvey.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<h2>\u2018Come, ye thankful people, come,\u2019 lyrics<\/h2>\nCome, ye thankful people, come,<br\/>\nraise the song of harvest home;<br\/>\nall is safely gathered in,<br\/>\nere the winter storms begin.<br\/>\nGod our Maker doth provide<br\/>\nfor our wants to be supplied;<br\/>\ncome to God\u2019s own temple, come,<br\/>\nraise the song of harvest home.<\/p>\n2 All the world is God\u2019s own field,<br\/>\nfruit as praise to God we yield;<br\/>\nwheat and tares together sown<br\/>\nare to joy or sorrow grown;<br\/>\nfirst the blade and then the ear,<br\/>\nthen the full corn shall appear;<br\/>\nLord of harvest, grant that we<br\/>\nwholesome grain and pure may be.<\/p>\n3 For the Lord our God shall come,<br\/>\nand shall take the harvest home;<br\/>\nfrom the field shall in that day<br\/>\nall offenses purge away,<br\/>\ngiving angels charge at last<br\/>\nin the fire the tares to cast;<br\/>\nbut the fruitful ears to store<br\/>\nin the garner evermore.<\/p>\n4 Even so, Lord, quickly come,<br\/>\nbring thy final harvest home;<br\/>\ngather thou thy people in,<br\/>\nfree from sorrow, free from sin,<br\/>\nthere, forever purified,<br\/>\nin thy presence to abide;<br\/>\ncome, with all thine angels, come,<br\/>\nraise the glorious harvest home.<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By BBC Music Magazine Published: Saturday, 12 November 2022 at 12:00 am Henry Alford wrote the hymn \u2018Come, ye thankful people, come\u2019 in 1844 to celebrate the harvest. Today it is often sung at harvest festivals and thanksgiving services to the tune \u00a0St. George\u2019s Windsor, composed\u00a0by\u00a0George Job Elvey. \u2018Come, ye thankful people, come,\u2019 lyrics Come, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":21346,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/11\/come-ye-thankful-people-come-lyrics.jpg",1772,1300,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/11\/come-ye-thankful-people-come-lyrics-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/11\/come-ye-thankful-people-come-lyrics-300x220.jpg",300,220,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/11\/come-ye-thankful-people-come-lyrics-768x563.jpg",768,563,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/11\/come-ye-thankful-people-come-lyrics-1024x751.jpg",800,587,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/11\/come-ye-thankful-people-come-lyrics-1536x1127.jpg",1536,1127,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/11\/come-ye-thankful-people-come-lyrics.jpg",1772,1300,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By BBC Music Magazine Published: Saturday, 12 November 2022 at 12:00 am Henry Alford wrote the hymn \u2018Come, ye thankful people, come\u2019 in 1844 to celebrate the harvest. Today it is often sung at harvest festivals and thanksgiving services to the tune \u00a0St. George\u2019s Windsor, composed\u00a0by\u00a0George Job Elvey. \u2018Come, ye thankful people, come,\u2019 lyrics Come,…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/21345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}