O How Beautiful

by Stephen Pearson

O HOW BEAUTIFUL (PSALM 48) 

2  -2”  3  3  3  3   3  -3 -3 -3
Oh how beautiful in its loftiness 
3  -3  4 4  4  -3”
Is the City of God.
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God is with her, and will leave her never.
2  -2”    3    3   3    -3
We have heard, we have seen, 
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In the City of God:
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That God is our fortress forever. 

Chorus: 
 3  4   4     4    4   4 4 4
Within this church we meditate 
 4   -4 -4 4    -4
Your unfailing love.
 3    -3”  -3
Like Your name, 
-3    -3”     3   -2” 3   4
Your praise shall be boundless.
 3    4   4    4     4   4    4    4
Your hand is filled with righteousness; 
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Your people rejoice
3  -3”  -3  -3   -3”   3   -2” 3   4
At the care and love that surround us. 
Verse 2:
Walk around her, count her towers,
Count her ramparts, citadels--
Yet tell to the next generation:
That her strength is God, our Fortress True, for all eternity.
Our God, our Guide, our Salvation!
(Chorus)