WA SODO JESU
Words: George F. Root, 1870
George Frederick Root was born with a talent for making music. At the age of 13 he was able to play 13 different instruments. In adult life, he played the organ in a church in New York City, and taught music at a women’s institute. He also taught at the New York Institute for the Blind, where Fanny Crosby was one of his students.
Root worked with hymn writer Lowell Mason at the Academy of Music in Boston. He wrote some popular songs for the secular market (such as Rosalie, the Prairie Flower), and patriotic songs around the time of the Civil War (such as Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching). But he is best known for his many hymns, sometimes providing words and music, other times composing tunes for the words of others.
As examples of his work, he wrote the tunes for Ring the Bells of Heaven and When He Cometh. And Root wrote words and music for Why Not Now? and Come to the Saviour. The latter is a simple invitation hymn, with a pretty tune.
(Read more here and get a story about the hymn here.)
| Wa sodo Jesu, ma se duro N'nu oro Re lo ti fona han wa O duro ni arin wa loni O n wi jeje pe, "Wa" Egbe Ipade wa yio je ayo Gb'okan wa ba bo lowo ese A o si wa pelu Re Jesu Ni ile wa lailai Je k'omode wa A! Gb'ohun Re Je kokan gbogbo fo fun ayo Ki a si yan A layanfe wa Ma duro, sugbon wa Tun ro, O wa pelu wa loni F'eti s'ofin Re ko si gboran Gbo b'ohun Re ti n wi pele pe, "Wa, omo mi, e wa!" |
Come to the Savior, make no delay; Here in His Word He has shown us the way; Here in our midst He’s standing today, Tenderly saying, “Come!” Refrain Joyful, joyful will the meeting be, When from sin our hearts are pure and free; And we shall gather, Savior, with Thee, In our eternal home. “Suffer the children!” oh, hear His voice! Let ev’ry heart leap forth and rejoice; And let us freely make Him our choice; Do not delay, but come. Think once again, He’s with us today; Heed now His blest command, and obey; Hear now His accents tenderly say, “Will you, My children, come?” |
George Frederick Root was born with a talent for making music. At the age of 13 he was able to play 13 different instruments. In adult life, he played the organ in a church in New York City, and taught music at a women’s institute. He also taught at the New York Institute for the Blind, where Fanny Crosby was one of his students.
Root worked with hymn writer Lowell Mason at the Academy of Music in Boston. He wrote some popular songs for the secular market (such as Rosalie, the Prairie Flower), and patriotic songs around the time of the Civil War (such as Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching). But he is best known for his many hymns, sometimes providing words and music, other times composing tunes for the words of others.
As examples of his work, he wrote the tunes for Ring the Bells of Heaven and When He Cometh. And Root wrote words and music for Why Not Now? and Come to the Saviour. The latter is a simple invitation hymn, with a pretty tune.
(Read more here and get a story about the hymn here.)
Ore ofe ohun
ReplyDelete1. Ore ofe ohun
Adun ni l’eti wa
Gbohun gbohun re y’o gba orun kan
Aye y’o gbo pelu
Ore ofe sa
N’igbekele mi
Jesu ku fun araye
O ku fun mi pelu
2. Ore ofe l’o ko
Oruko mi l’orun
L’o fi mi fun Od’agutan
T’O gba iya mi je.
3. Ore ofe to mi
S’ona alafia
O ntoju mi l’ojojumo
Ni irin ajo mi
4. Ore ofe ko mi
Bi a ti ‘gbadura
O pa mi mo titi d’oni
Ko si je ki nsako
5. Je k’ore ofe yi
F’agbara f’okan mi
Ki nle fi gbogbo ipa mi
At’ojo mi fun O. Amin
Thank you for this hymn sir. I will add it to my collection.
DeleteI love this song. This song was adopted by my grandmother's group in church ( Egbe oreofe). Thank you for this song.
DeleteHI, I think the last line of the refrain is "Ni ile ayeraye". But thanks anyways
ReplyDeleteThey are both correct but I sang it as "Ni ile wa lailai" for several years before an updated version of my church's Yoruba hymnal changes it to "Ni ile ayeraye" and so prefer it. But whichever you choose to use, they both mean the same thing.
DeleteYES U ARE RIGHT
ReplyDeleteThanks for this motivational hymn sir.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome. I'm a ma'am though not a sir.
ReplyDeleteThanks! Grace alone, always.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, could remember in parts my grandma's favourite hymn; the refrain stuck with me all of these years, thanks again!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome.
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