“Home By Another Way" Original Hymn (Magi, Journey, Star Sunday)
“Home By Another Way" Original Hymn (Magi, Journey, Star Sunday)
DIGITAL SHEET MUSIC DOWNLOAD
This hymn, originally written for the From Generation to Generation bundle for Advent 2022, is created for use in congregational worship and other ministry contexts. We’ve set fresh words of faith to a well-loved public domain hymn tune for maximum singability.
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“Home By Another Way”
KINGS OF ORIENT 8.8.4.4.6 with refrain (“We Three Kings of Orient Are”)
Text: Anna Strickland, 2021
Music: John Henry Hopkins, 1857
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Lyrics:
“Home By Another Way”
KINGS OF ORIENT 8.8.4.4.6 with refrain (“We Three Kings of Orient Are”)
Text: Anna Strickland, 2021
Music: John Henry Hopkins, 1857
Magi from a faraway place
Radiant starlight setting their pace
Fording wadi, risking body
Seeking the king’s birthplace
Refrain:
Oh, we have traveled night and day
Meeting God where’er we stay
Paths are changing, rearranging
As we find another way
Threatened by the good news they bring
Herod plots to kill the new king
Angels warning in the morning:
”Avoid Jerusalem”
Refrain
Plans that change and storms that delay
Dreams and hopes left in disarray
Make us tremble, but remember
There is another way
Refrain
credit info:
Hymn text by Rev. Anna Strickland | A Sanctified Art, LLC | sanctifiedart.org
