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I Wanna Be Ready
Meter: 8.10.8.10 with refrain Appears in 19 hymnals First Line: John said the city was just foursquare Lyrics: Refrain:
I wanna be ready,
I wanna be ready.
I wanna be ready to walk in Jerusalem just like John.
1 John said the city was just four-square,
To walk in Jerusalem just like John.
and he declared he'd meet me there.
To walk in Jerusalem just like John. Oh, [Refrain]
2 I've never been to heaven but I've been told
To walk in Jerusalem just like John.
that the streets up there are paved with gold.
To walk in Jerusalem just like John. Oh, [Refrain]
3 If you get there before I do,
To walk in Jerusalem just like John.
tell all my friends I'm comin' too.
To walk in Jerusalem just like John. Oh, [Refrain] Topics: Eternal Life; Funeral; Salvation Scripture: Revelation 21:2 Used With Tune: BE READY Text Sources: Spiritual
I Wanna Be Ready
Gravity of Love
Author: John Arndt; David Gungor; Matt Maher Meter: 8.10.8.10 with refrain Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: I lift my eyes up to the hills Refrain First Line: This is the gravity of love
Gravity of Love
[O Calvary, dread Calvary]
Meter: 8.10.8.10 with refrain Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: James H. Fillmore Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 33252 21511 77176
[O Calvary, dread Calvary]
GRAVITY OF LOVE
Meter: 8.10.8.10 with refrain Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: John Arndt; David Gungor; Matt Maher Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 55113 35554 33254
GRAVITY OF LOVE
I Wanna Be Ready
Hymnal: Hymns for a Pilgrim People #473 (2007) Meter: 8.10.8.10 with refrain First Line: John said the city was just foursquare Lyrics: Refrain:
I wanna be ready,
I wanna be ready.
I wanna be ready to walk in Jerusalem just like John.
1 John said the city was just four-square,
To walk in Jerusalem just like John.
and he declared he'd meet me there.
To walk in Jerusalem just like John. Oh, [Refrain]
2 I've never been to heaven but I've been told
To walk in Jerusalem just like John.
that the streets up there are paved with gold.
To walk in Jerusalem just like John. Oh, [Refrain]
3 If you get there before I do,
To walk in Jerusalem just like John.
tell all my friends I'm comin' too.
To walk in Jerusalem just like John. Oh, [Refrain] Topics: Eternal Life; Funeral; Salvation Scripture: Revelation 21:2 Languages: English Tune Title: BE READY
I Wanna Be Ready
I Wanna Be Ready
Hymnal: Total Praise #598 (2011) Meter: 8.10.8.10 with refrain First Line: John said the city was just four-square Lyrics: Refrain:
I wanna be ready,
I wanna be ready.
I wanna be ready to walk in Jerusalem just like John.
1 John said the city was just four-square,
To walk in Jerusalem just like John.
and he declared he'd meet me there.
To walk in Jerusalem just like John. Oh, [Refrain]
2 I've never been to heaven but I've been told
To walk in Jerusalem just like John.
that the streets up there are paved with gold.
To walk in Jerusalem just like John. Oh, [Refrain]
3 If you get there before I do,
To walk in Jerusalem just like John.
tell all my friends I'm comin' too.
To walk in Jerusalem just like John. Oh, [Refrain] Topics: Aspiration; Heaven; Solos; Spirituals Scripture: Revelation 21:2 Languages: English Tune Title: BE READY
I Wanna Be Ready
I Wanna Be Ready
Hymnal: African American Heritage Hymnal #600 (2001) Meter: 8.10.8.10 with refrain First Line: John said the city was just four-square Lyrics: Refrain:
I wanna be ready,
I wanna be ready.
I wanna be ready
to walk in Jerusalem just like John.
1 John said the city was just four-square,
To walk in Jerusalem just like John.
and he declared he'd meet me there.
To walk in Jerusalem just like John. Oh, [Refrain]
2 I've never been to heaven but I've been told
To walk in Jerusalem just like John..
that the streets up there are paved with gold.
To walk in Jerusalem just like John. [Refrain]
3 If you get there before I do,
To walk in Jerusalem just like John.
tell all my friends I'm comin' too.
To walk in Jerusalem just like John. [Refrain] Topics: Everlasting Life Scripture: Revelation 21:2 Languages: English Tune Title: BE READY
I Wanna Be Ready
Evelyn Simpson-Curenton
b. 1953 Person Name: Evelyn Simpson-Curenton, b. 1953 Meter: 8.10.8.10 with refrain Arranger of "BE READY" in African American Heritage Hymnal Evelyn Simpson Curenton (born 1953) is a leading African-American composer, pianist, organist, and vocalist.
Simpson Curenton began piano lessons at age 5, began to perform with the Singing Simpsons of Philadelphia, a family group, and earned a B.M., Music Education and Voice from Temple University.
She has been commissioned to write works for the American Guild of Organists, George Shirley, the late Duke Ellington, and her sister, the late Joy Simpson, arranged music for Kathleen Battle, Jessye Norman, and the Porgy and Bess Chorus of the New York Metropolitan Opera, and has performed with musical organizations such as Philadelphia's National Opera Ebony (later renamed Opera North).
Based in the Washington, D.C., area, Curenton is Music Director of the Washington Performing Arts Society's Men and Women of the Gospel and an associate of the Smithsonian Institution. She has given lectures and participated in workshops on early 18th-century black religious music and the music of African-Americans during the Civil Rights era.
--en.wikipedia.org
Evelyn Simpson-Curenton
J. H. Fillmore
1849 - 1936 Person Name: James H. Fillmore Meter: 8.10.8.10 with refrain Composer of "[O Calvary, dread Calvary]" James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer.
John Perry
J. H. Fillmore
