Hill of Vision | World Quaker Songbook 2024

'How Can I Keep from Singing' from the World Quaker Songbook, performed by Friend and musician ‪@amyduckettwagner5764‬

The songbook is produced by the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) to bring together songs and hymns known by Quakers across the world, ahead of the 2024 World Plenary Meeting in South Africa. To find out more and download the songbook, head to fwcc.world/wpm

Follow the lyrics and sing along:

It was to the hill of vision,
That a young man was called,
And upon it he sounded,
The day of the Lord,
And there he had a vision,
Of a people near and far,
Who were there to be gathered,
And now here we are.

He had spoken with professors,
And spoken with priests,
But they all spoke of war,
And not justice nor peace,
So he turned to the inward teacher,
Who’d been there since the start,
The divine Light of Jesus,
In all people’s hearts.

Well the judges didn’t like it,
They threw him in jail,
But the word kept on spreading,
All over the world;
Be patterns, be examples,
Wherever you may come,
Answering that of God,
That is in everyone.

It was to the hill of vision,
That a young man was called,
And upon it he sounded,
The day of the Lord,
And there he had a vision,
Of a people near and far,
Who were there to be gathered,
And now here we are.