Higher Ground

𝄞: G 🕑: 3/4 CCLI: 21844 url 🖉 Rev. Johnson Oatman, Jr., Charles Hutchison Gabriel © 1898 Public Domain

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I'm pressing on, the upward way

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New heights I'm gain-ing every day

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Still praying as, I'm onward bound

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Lord plant my feet on higher ground

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Lord lift me up, and let me stand

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By faith on hea-ven's tableland

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A higher plane, than I have found

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Lord plant my feet on higher ground

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My heart has no, desire to stay

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Where doubts arise, and fears dismay

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Though some may dwell, where these abound

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My prayer my aim is higher ground

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I want to live, above the world

Though Satan's darts, at me are hurled

For faith has caught, the joyful sound

The song of saints on higher ground

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I want to scale, the utmost height

And catch a gleam, of glory bright

But still I'll pray, 'til heaven I've found

Lord lead me on to higher ground