Ye Gates, Lift Your Heads

Ye gates, lift your heads, the glad summons obey

Tune: LANSING
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 Ye gates, lift your heads, the glad summons obey,
Ye doors everlasting, wide open the way;
The King of all glory high honors await,
The King of all glory shall enter in state.

2 What King of all glory is this that ye sing?
The Lord, strong and mighty,]the conquering King.
Ye gates, lift your heads, and His summons obey,
Y doors everlasting, wide open the way.

3 The King of all glory, high honors await,
The King of all glory shall enter in state.
What King of all glory is this that ye sing?
Jehovah of Hosts, He of glory is King.

The Psalter: with responsive readings, 1912

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First Line: Ye gates, lift your heads, the glad summons obey
Title: Ye Gates, Lift Your Heads
Meter: 11.11.11.11
Language: English
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LANSING

LANSING is one of several tunes by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) included in the 1912 Psalter, where it was set to the second part of Psalm 24, "Ye Gates Lift Your Heads." The tune title refers to the Illinois city just south of Chicago near which Gabriel…

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Psalter Hymnal (Blue) #42
The Psalter: with responsive readings #58TextImage
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