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WE ARE NEARING HOME!

Meter: 11.11.11.11 with refrain Appears in 13 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John R. Sweney Tune Key: D Flat Major Incipit: 34556 53212 31 Used With Text: Just Over the Mountains

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We Are Almost Home

Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr. Appears in 9 hymnals First Line: Just over the ocean is our home on high Refrain First Line: We are almost home, we are almost home Lyrics: 1 Just over the ocean is our home on high, Where we all will gather and rest by and by; We’ve a mansion far above the vaulted dome, We shall soon be over, we are almost home. Refrain: We are almost home, we are almost home; Just a few more trials, just a few more tears; Just a few more troubles, just a few more fears; Then we’ll cast the anchor, never more to roam; We will soon be over, we are almost home, We are almost home. 2 Our house is all ready in the promised land; It was built and modeled by the Lord’s own hand; He will lead us over when this life is o’er, Where beneath its portals we will rest evermore. [Refrain] 3 The road has been weary, and the way been long, But our hearts are cheery with the Lord’s own song; See, the lights are gleaming o’er the ocean foam, And our joy is beaming, we are almost home. [Refrain] 4 Our dear ones are watching as we near the shore, How we long to join them, to part never more; Thro’ the golden city with them we will roam; Don’t you hear the singing? We are almost home. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Just over the ocean is our home on high] Text Sources: Songs of Love and Praise No. 2, by Henry Gilmour et al. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John J. Hood, 1895), number 122

We Are Nearing Home!

Author: C. P. Whitford Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: Just over the mountains in the Promised Land Used With Tune: [Just over the mountains in the Promised Land]

Allá sobre montes

Author: Gilberto Bustamante; C. P. Whitford Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Allá sobre montes, en feliz país Refrain First Line: ¡Vamos al hogar! Topics: El evangelio Hogar celestial; The Gospel Heavenly home Scripture: Revelation 21:10-11 Used With Tune: [Allá sobre montes, en feliz país]

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We Are Almost Home

Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #12635 First Line: Just over the ocean is our home on high Refrain First Line: We are almost home, we are almost home Lyrics: 1 Just over the ocean is our home on high, Where we all will gather and rest by and by; We’ve a mansion far above the vaulted dome, We shall soon be over, we are almost home. Refrain: We are almost home, we are almost home; Just a few more trials, just a few more tears; Just a few more troubles, just a few more fears; Then we’ll cast the anchor, never more to roam; We will soon be over, we are almost home, We are almost home. 2 Our house is all ready in the promised land; It was built and modeled by the Lord’s own hand; He will lead us over when this life is o’er, Where beneath its portals we will rest evermore. [Refrain] 3 The road has been weary, and the way been long, But our hearts are cheery with the Lord’s own song; See, the lights are gleaming o’er the ocean foam, And our joy is beaming, we are almost home. [Refrain] 4 Our dear ones are watching as we near the shore, How we long to join them, to part never more; Thro’ the golden city with them we will roam; Don’t you hear the singing? We are almost home. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Just over the ocean is our home on high]

We Are Almost Home

Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: Praise Hymns and Full Salvation Songs #24 (1898) First Line: Just over the ocean is our home on high Languages: English Tune Title: [Just over the ocean is our home on high]

We Are Almost Home

Author: Johnson Oatman, Jr. Hymnal: The Young People's Hymnal No. 2 #116 (1905) First Line: Just over the ocean is our home on high Languages: English Tune Title: [Just over the ocean is our home on high]

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Johnson Oatman, Jr.

1856 - 1922 Author of "We Are Almost Home" in The Cyber Hymnal Johnson Oatman, Jr., son of Johnson and Rachel Ann Oatman, was born near Medford, N. J., April 21, 1856. His father was an excellent singer, and it always delighted the son to sit by his side and hear him sing the songs of the church. Outside of the usual time spent in the public schools, Mr. Oatman received his education at Herbert's Academy, Princetown, N. J., and the New Jersey Collegiate Institute, Bordentown, N. J. At the age of nineteen he joined the M.E. Church, and a few years later he was granted a license to preach the Gospel, and still later he was regularly ordained by Bishop Merrill. However, Mr. Oatman only serves as a local preacher. For many years he was engaged with his father in the mercantile business at Lumberton, N. J., under the firm name of Johnson Oatman & Son. Since the death of his father, he has for the past fifteen years been in the life insurance business, having charge of the business of one of the great companies in Mt. Holly, N. J., where he resides. He has written over three thousand hymns, and no gospel song book is considered as being complete unless it contains some of his hymns. In 1878 he married Wilhelmina Reid, of Lumberton, N.J. and had three children, Rachel, Miriam, and Percy. Excerpted from Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers by Jacob Henry Hall; Fleming H. Revell, Co. 1914

John R. Sweney

1837 - 1899 Person Name: John Robson Sweney Composer of "[Just over the ocean is our home on high]" in The Cyber Hymnal John R. Sweney (1837-1899) was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and exhibited musical abilities at an early age. At nineteen he was studying with a German music teacher, leading a choir and glee club, and performing at children’s entertainments. By twenty-two he was teaching at a school in Dover, Delaware. Soon thereafter, he was put in charge of the band of the Third Delaware Regiment of the Union Army for the duration of the Civil War. After the war, he became Professor of Music at the Pennsylvania Military Academy, and director of Sweney’s Cornet Band. He eventually earned Bachelor and Doctor of Music degrees at the Academy. Sweney began composing church music in 1871 and became well-known as a leader of large congregations. His appreciators stated “Sweney knows how to make a congregation sing” and “He had great power in arousing multitudes.” He also became director of music for a large Sunday school at the Bethany Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia of which John Wanamaker was superintendent (Wanamaker was the founder of the first major department store in Philadelphia). In addition to his prolific output of hymn melodies and other compositions, Sweney edited or co-edited about sixty song collections, many in collaboration with William J. Kirkpatrick. Sweney died on April 10, 1899, and his memorial was widely attended and included a eulogy by Wanamaker. Joe Hickerson from "Joe's Jottings #9" used by permission