K'Olurun So Wa, K'a Tun Pade

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1 K’Olorun so o k’a tun pade!
Ki imoran Re gbe o ro,
K’o ka o mo aguntan Re,
K’Olorun so wa ka tun pade!

Egbe:
K’a pade…k’a pade!
K’a pade l’ ese Jesu:
K’a pade…k’a pade!
K’Olorun so o, k’a tun pade.

2 K’Olorun so o, k’a tun pade!
K’ O f’iye Re dabobo o,
K’ O ma pese fun aini re,
K’Olorun so o k’a tun pade! [Egbe]

3 K’Olorun so o, k’a tun pade!
Nigbat’ ewu ba yi o ka,
K’ owo ife Re gba o mu,
K’ Olorun so o, ka tun pade! [Egbe]

4 K’ Olorun so o, ka tun pade!
K’O fi ife rado bo o,
K’ O pa oro iku fun o,
K’Olorun so wa, ka tun pade! [Egbe]

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #15888

Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin

Pseudonym: R. E. Jeremy. Rankin, Jeremiah Eames, D.D., was born at Thornton, New Haven, Jan. 2, 1828, and educated at Middleburg College, Vermont, and at Andover. For two years he resided at Potsdam, U.S. Subsequently he held pastoral charges as a Congregational Minister at New York, St. Albans, Charlestown, Washington ( District of Columbia), &c. In 1878 he edited the Gospel Temperance Hymnal, and later the Gospel Bells. His hymns appeared in these collections, and in D. E. Jones's Songs of the New Life, 1869. His best known hymn is "Labouring and heavy laden" (Seeking Christ). This was "written [in 1855] for a sister who was an inquirer," was first printed in the Boston Recorder, and then included in Nason's Congregational Hymn Book,… Go to person page >

Translator: J. J. Ransome-Kuti

(no biographical information available about J. J. Ransome-Kuti.) Go to person page >

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First Line: K’Olorun so o k’a tun pade!
Title: K'Olurun So Wa, K'a Tun Pade
English Title: God be with you till we meet again
Author: Jeremiah Eames Rankin
Translator: J. J. Ransome-Kuti
Meter: 9.8.8.9 with refrain
Language: Yoruba
Refrain First Line: K’a pade…k’a pade!
Copyright: Public Domain

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