{"slug": "come-let-us-join-our-cheerful-songs", "title": "Come, Let Us Join Our Cheerful Songs", "first_line": "Come, let us join our cheerful songs", "author": "isaac-watts", "author_date": "1707", "foot": "iambic", "meter": {"pattern": [8, 6, 8, 6], "doubled": false, "refrain": false, "alleluia": false, "irregular": false}, "topics": ["Praise", "Worship of Christ", "Lamb of God"], "scripture": "Revelation 5:11", "provenance": {"layer": "text", "source": "cyberhymnal", "source_kind": "open_encoding", "encoding_origin": "The Cyber Hymnal, \"Come, Let Us Join Our Cheerful Songs\" (comeletu.htm); all five stanzas as printed there, credited \"Isaac Watts, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book 1, 1707, number 62.\"", "pd_basis": "pub_pre_1931", "pd_evidence": "Isaac Watts (1674-1748), \"Come, let us join our cheerful songs,\" Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book 1, 1707, number 62 (\"Christ Jesus, the Lamb of God, worshiped by all the creation\"), as credited by The Cyber Hymnal. Hymnary.org text authority come_let_us_join_our_cheerful_songs (1,033 hymnals). One sung elision normalized for the 8.6.8.6 meter: \"power\" is elided to \"pow'r\" in 3.2 (the Cyber Hymnal prints the full spelling; the line scans at six syllables only with the standard one-syllable elision). All components pre-1931.", "pd_jurisdictions": {"US": true}, "hymnary_ids": {"text_auth": "come_let_us_join_our_cheerful_songs", "total_instances": 1033}}, "stanzas": {"1": {"syllabified": "Come, let us join our cheer -- ful songs With an -- gels round the throne. Ten thou -- sand, thou -- sand are their tongues, But all their joys are one.", "prose": ["Come, let us join our cheerful songs", "With angels round the throne.", "Ten thousand, thousand are their tongues,", "But all their joys are one."]}, "2": {"syllabified": "Wor -- thy the Lamb that died, they cry, To be ex -- alt -- ed thus! Wor -- thy the Lamb, our hearts re -- ply, For He was slain for us!", "prose": ["Worthy the Lamb that died, they cry,", "To be exalted thus!", "Worthy the Lamb, our hearts reply,", "For He was slain for us!"]}, "3": {"syllabified": "Je -- sus is wor -- thy to re -- ceive Hon -- or and pow'r di -- vine; And bless -- ings more than we can give, Be, Lord, for -- ev -- er Thine.", "prose": ["Jesus is worthy to receive", "Honor and pow'r divine;", "And blessings more than we can give,", "Be, Lord, forever Thine."]}, "4": {"syllabified": "Let all that dwell a -- bove the sky, And air and earth and seas, Con -- spire to lift Thy glo -- ries high, And speak Thine end -- less praise!", "prose": ["Let all that dwell above the sky,", "And air and earth and seas,", "Conspire to lift Thy glories high,", "And speak Thine endless praise!"]}, "5": {"syllabified": "The whole cre -- a -- tion join in one, To bless the sa -- cred name Of Him who sits up -- on the throne, And to a -- dore the Lamb.", "prose": ["The whole creation join in one,", "To bless the sacred name", "Of Him who sits upon the throne,", "And to adore the Lamb."]}}, "license": "The hymn texts and tunes are in the public domain; per-layer provenance is recorded on each record."}