for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir,

Craig Jessop, Music Director

Bound for the Promised Land

For Mixed Chorus (SATB) and Piano Fou-hands*
American Folk Hymn;
Mack Wilberg, arr.

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Robustly, with energy h = c. 86-90
Soprano        

Alto       

f with marked articulation

                       
 
Tenor

On Jor - dan’s storm - y banks I stand And cast a wish - ful eye, To Ca - naan’s fair and

              
f with marked articulation
          

Bass  
On Jor - dan’s storm - y banks I stand And cast a wish - ful eye, To Ca - naan’s fair and

 
6 f with marked articulation

            

There gen - ’rous fruits that nev - er fail On

 f with marked articulation

            

There gen - ’rous fruits that nev - er fail On
 
             
 hap

- py
 land Where my pos - ses - sions lie.

           

mf
         
hap - py land Where my pos - ses - sions lie. There gen - ’rous fruits that nev - er fail On

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 
                       
trees im - mor - tal grow; There rocks and hills and brooks and vales With milk and hon - ey
  
                       

trees im - mor - tal grow; There rocks and hills and brooks and vales With milk and hon - ey

     

        

           
 
trees im - mor - tal grow; There rocks and hills and brooks and vales With milk and hon - ey

*A full score and parts for an orchestral accompaniment (picc.2.2.2.2-4.3.3.1-timp.2perc-hp-str) are available on rental from the publisher.
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir with the Orchestra at Temple Square have recorded Mack Wilberg’s choral-orchestral version
of “Bound for the Promised Land” on the CD’s “Spirit of America” (MTC-0302-2) and “America’s Choir” (MTC-6313)
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16 S. 2 f
       
             
flow. I am bound for the pro - mised land, I’m bound for the pro - mised land,
O
 f

                 

 
flow. I am bound for the pro - mised land, I’m bound for the pro - mised land,
O
 ff (melody)
 
                        

 

I am bound for the pro - mised land, I’m bound for the pro - mised land, O

    

           
f

     


flow. I am bound for the pro - mised land, I’m bound for the pro - mised land, O
     


Primo
    



      
                      
      
Secondo f
         
                   
   
  
  
  

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tutti
21

          
ff (melody)

     
        
 
who will come and go with me? I am bound for the pro- mised land. I am bound for the pro - mised

 
f

               
 
       
who will come and go with me? I am bound for the pro- mised land. I am bound for the pro - mised
 
          
f

               
 who will come and
 
go with me? I am bound for the pro- mised land. I am bound for the pro - mised

 
f
     unis.           

         
 


who will come and go with me? I am bound for the pro- mised land. I am bound for the pro - mised


     

     



 
             
                         
    

           
                           
    

 
   
