Come Awa the Noo Ma Freens

Supplied by: Colin Agnew, from the Rev Ian McClean of Ballymoney, Co. Antrim.
Rev McClean learned this as a boy at Sunday School in Gracehill, Co. Antrim.
Author: unknown
Copyright: unknown
Date: unknown

Recorded by the Low Country Boys on the 2006 cd "Sangs o Bairns an Hame (an a Wheen aboot Drink forbye)".
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Come awa the noo ma freens
There’s mercy wi’ the Saviour
His grace’ll keep ye cheery
While the days are slippin by
And aa the joy that waits us
Whun we gang hame tae glory
We’ll be singin wi the ransomed
In the sweet by and by

At Ballymena Faith Mission Centre on 18th March 2006, a man called Robin Keys introduced himself to us after our performance. He told us that he had sung this as a boy in Londonderry in the Boys Brigade in the 1950s, and added this famous hymn to the end:

In the sweet by and by
We shall meet on that beautiful shore
In the sweet by and by
We shall meet on that beautiful shore