Words by: Isaac Watts

Music by: Lowell Mason

Year written: 1719 (words), 1836 (music)

The story:

Isaac Watts was a prolific English hymn writer who wrote over 750 hymns, including When I Survey the Wondrous Cross and O God, our Help in Ages Past. He wrote this poem based on Psalm 98. It was ...

Original title in German: Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht

Words by: Joseph Mohr

Music by: Franz Xaver Gruber

Year written: 1818

The story:

Mohr, a young Austraian priest, had written the poem back in 1816. The song was first performed on Christmas Eve 1818 at St. Nicholas Church in Oberndorf ...

Lots of sites have lists of the most popular traditional Christmas hymns, but here are the ones that people search for the most on Google (and this site).

Silent Night lyrics - 60,500
Joy to the World lyrics - 40,500
Mary Did You Know lyrics - 33,100
O Holy Night lyrics - 27,100
Ave Maria lyrics ...

Hi Jlmiller,

Thanks so much for your question—and sorry for taking over a month to get back to you!

As tab2010 mentioned, Hymnary is great. But for me, my two go-to sources are Archive.org and Google Books.

Here's an example of a search I do on Archive.org:

https://archive.org/search?query ...

Hi Nancy,

Lol...I had a brainstorm to do this about a year ago when I was in the throes of unemployment, but completely forgot about it until now (thank God, I eventually got a job...I was sad that I couldn't put more time into building this up as I wanted to, but grateful to be able to pay food ...

There's actually a good number of albums and tracks by the Hinsons on Spotify. You can listen to them with ads, or pay for a premium account to go ad-free.

The Hinsons on Spotify

Good news! I was able to find the lyrics. Here they are:

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Somewhere, beyond the sunset, A perfect realm is found
Where all earth's holy longings are fulfilled,
And endless joys abound.

Chorus
Somewhere, beyond the sunset, We'll see the Saviour we adore,
We'll fall in worship at His dear feet ...

Wow...thanks so much for posting, Jeff, as well as for writing this beautiful hymn almost 40 years ago.

In the last 7 years it looks like over 15,000 people have come to this past looking for it, which shows the impact your music has had.

Our world is in need more than ever of getting to know the ...

One of my favorites, and so very meaningful and true.

A lot of people have the misconception that "serving God" is only something that ministers or church workers can do. That's not true, of course. Anyone who isn't serving themselves or serving Satan is serving God. Anyone who does even the ...

I love questions like this :)

Here are some of the most iconic Easter hymns:

Christ Arose (Low in the Grave He Lay)
One Day
He Lives
Because He Lives
Christ the Lord Is Risen Today
Jesus Christ Is Risen Today
I Know That My Redeemer Lives
The Strife is O'er
Rejoice and Be Glad ...