#326 Come, Come Ye Saints (Men’s Choir)
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“Come, Come, Ye Saints” (originally “All is Well”) is one of the best-known Latter-day Saint hymns. The lyrics were written in 1846 by Mormonpoet William Clayton. The hymn has been called the anthem of the nineteenth-century Mormon pioneers.
Clayton wrote the hymn “All is Well” on April 15, 1846, as his Mormon pioneer caravan rested at Locust Creek, Iowa, over 100 miles west of their origin city of Nauvoo, Illinois. Just prior to writing the lyrics, Clayton had received word that his wife Diantha had given birth to a healthy boy in Nauvoo.
The hymn was renamed “Come, Come, Ye Saints” and is hymn #30 in the current LDS Church hymnal. (A men’s arrangement of the hymn is #326 of the same hymnal.) “Come, Come, Ye Saints” features prominently in celebrations of Pioneer Day in Utah and in performances of theMormon Tabernacle Choir.
The hymn also appears in a Protestant hymnal, the United Church of Christ‘s New Century Hymnal, with alternate lyrics for the LDS-oriented third verse created by lyricist Avis B. Christianson.[1] Another version by Joseph F. Green is contained in the Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal.[2]
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