That Beautiful Land on High

Pippin, Eveleta/Evaleta (December 18, 1891—May 18, 1974) was the daughter of Reverend Martin Franklin Pippin and Ella C. Deal. She married Edward R. Phillips, Jr. in 1914 in Dale County. They are buried at the Union Cemetery in Ozark. (“Evaleta” is the spelling on her tombstone). Listed "as sung by Miss Eveleta Pippin" and added to the book in 1909.

503       That Beautiful Land On High

There's a beautiful land on high,

To its glory I fain would fly,

When by sorrow press'd down,

I long for my crown,

In that beautiful land on high.

Chorus:

In that beautiful land I will be...

From earth and its cares set free;

My Jesus is there,

He has gone to prepare

A place in that land for me.

There's a beautiful land on high,

I shall enter it by and by,

There with friend, hand in hand,

I shall walk on the strand

In that beautiful land on high.

(Chorus)

There's a beautiful land on high,

Where they never shall weep or sigh,

For my Father has said,

That no tears shall be shed

In that beautiful land on high.

(Chorus)

The words are by James Nicholson, 1870 (or earlier; slightly altered). Printed with 6 stanzas in Hallowed Songs (newly Revised): For Prayer and Social Meetings by Philip Phillips with a tune by W. U. Butcher).