Only Remembered

ONLY REMEMBERED – version sung by Coope Boyes & Simpson. Original words by Horatius Bonar, 1870; music by Ira David Sankey, 1891. Sung by Coope Boyes & Simpson. The original cast recording from War Horse. SheetMusic(pdf), Four-Part Score(pdf)

Fading away like the stars in the morning
Losing their light in the glorious sun
Thus would we pass from this earth and its toiling
Only remembered for what we have done

     Only remembered only remembered
     Only remembered for what we have done
     Thus would we pass from this earth and its toiling
     Only remembered for what we have done

Only the truth that in life we have spoken
Only the seed that in life we have sown
These shall pass onwards when we are forgotten
Only remembered for what we have done

     Only remembered only remembered
     Only remembered for what we have done
     These shall pass onwards when we are forgotten
     Only remembered for what we have done

Who’ll sing the anthem and who’ll tell the story
Will the line hold? Will it scatter and run?
Shall we at last be united in glory
Only remembered for what we have done

     Only remembered only remembered
     Only remembered for what we have done
     Shall we at last be united in glory
     Only remembered for what we have done
     Only remembered for what we have done

RETURN TO HENDRICKSON'S SONG PAGE