Come, Ye Thankful People Come

Come, Ye Thankful People Come - The Festival Choir and Hosanna Chorus

Come ye thankful people come

Raise the song of harvest home

All is safely gathered in

Ere the winter storms begin

God our maker doth provide

For our wants to be supplied

Come to God's own temple come

Raise the song of harvest home

All the world is god's own field

Fruit as praise to God we yield

Wheat and tares together sown

Are to joy or sorrow grown

First the blade and then the ear

Then the full corn shall appear

Lord of harvest grant that we

Wholesome grain and pure may be

For the Lord our God shall come

And shall take the harvest home

From the field shall in that day

All offenses purge away

Giving angels charge at last

In the fire the tares to cast

But the fruitful ears to store

In the garner evermore