Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
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Organ and orchestra: an introduction, then each of the 3 verses. Tap a verse’s number to start there.
- What a fellowship, what a joy divine,Leaning on the everlasting arms;What a blessedness, what a peace is mine,Leaning on the everlasting arms.RefrainLeaning, leaning,Safe and secure from all alarms;Leaning, leaning,Leaning on the everlasting arms.
- O how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way,Leaning on the everlasting arms;O how bright the path grows from day to day,Leaning on the everlasting arms.RefrainLeaning, leaning,Safe and secure from all alarms;Leaning, leaning,Leaning on the everlasting arms.
- What have I to dread, what have I to fear,Leaning on the everlasting arms?I have blessèd peace with my Lord so near,Leaning on the everlasting arms.RefrainLeaning, leaning,Safe and secure from all alarms;Leaning, leaning,Leaning on the everlasting arms.
About this hymn
- Words
- Elisha A. Hoffman, 1887. Refrain by Anthony J. Showalter. As printed in The Golden Sheaf (1902), no. 62.
- Tune
- SHOWALTER, Anthony J. Showalter, 1887.
- Harmony
- Anthony J. Showalter, 1887. Score from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary. Converted to ABC from the CCEH’s MIDI file and checked note for note against it and its score.
- Recordings
- Arranged and recorded by Fish the Right, from the harmony above: the melody note for note and every chord the hymnal’s own. Played on the Salamander Grand Piano V3 by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0), with organ, strings, brass and timpani from VSCO 2 Community Edition by Versilian Studios (the organ sampled by Simon Dalzell); drums from Virtuosity Drums and bass from Black And Blue Basses by Versilian Studios and Karoryfer Samples; pads from GeneralUser GS by S. Christian Collins; made with abcMIDI, sfizz, FluidSynth and FFmpeg.
- Rights
- Words 1887, tune 1887, setting 1887: all published before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Checked: words (hymnary.org), tune (hymnary.org), harmony (ccel.org).
- Scripture
- Deuteronomy 33:27