Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

"Will the Circle Be Unbroken?"
Page from 1908 hymnal.
Song
Language	English
Written	1907
Composer(s)	Charles H. Gabriel
Lyricist(s)	Ada R. Habershon

"Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" is a popular Christian hymn written by Ada R. Habershon with music by Charles H. Gabriel. The song is often recorded unattributed.

Lyrics

There are loved ones in the glory

Whose dear forms you often miss.

When you close your earthly story,

Will you join them in their bliss?

CHORUS:

Will the circle be unbroken

By and by, by and by?

Is a better home awaiting

In the sky, in the sky?

In the joyous days of childhood

Oft they told of wondrous love

Pointed to the dying Saviour;

Now they dwell with Him above.

(Chorus)

You remember songs of heaven

Which you sang with childish voice.

Do you love the hymns they taught you,

Or are songs of earth your choice?

(Chorus)

You can picture happy gath'rings

Round the fireside long ago,

And you think of tearful partings

When they left you here below.

(Chorus)

One by one their seats were emptied.

One by one they went away.

Now the family is parted.

Will it be complete one day?

(Chorus)

Cover

Adam Mckenzie covered the song for New Praise Volume One, as well as a live recording of it featured on his fourth album He Saved Me.

Bibliography

• Alexander, Charles M. Alexander's Gospel Songs. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company (1908).

External links

• "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?"—The Cyber Hymnal.
• "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?"—"Governor Tim Kaine of Virginia" performs with "Boyd Tinsley" of the "Dave Matthews Band".