Family Musical Heritage

Text Box: Troutman Family Clan Song
(Tune: Beulah Land)

Written by Janice Clodfelter. Granddaughter of Martha Jane Troutman Clodfelter

A heritage we have to claim,
And proud we are to bear the name
Of those who founded this our clan
Led on always by God’s own hand.
Chorus:
Our Father’s God, our Father’s God
Who led them as life’s path they trod,
Be with us as we strive to hold
Ideals our fathers knew of old—
And to the God they knelt before
We pledge our faith forever more.

From lands afar they came to build
A nation strong and beauty-filled
In fellowship let us renew
The hopes, the dreams, which they held true.
Chorus

Parting Hymn

How pleasant thus to dwell below,
In fellowship of love!
And though we part, ’tis bliss to know
The good shall meet above,
The good shall meet above,
The good shall meet above,
And though we part, ’tis bliss to know
The good shall meet above.
Chorus:
Oh! That will be joyful, joyful, joyful!
Oh! That will be joyful,
To meet to part no more,
To meet to part no more
On Canaan’s happy shore,
And sing the everlasting song
With those who’ve gone before.

The children who have loved the Lord,
Shall meet their teachers there
And teachers gain the rich reward
Of all their toil and care
Of all their toil and care
Of all their toil and care
And teachers gain the rich reward
Of all their toil and care.
Chorus
Yes, happy though, when we are far
From early grief and pain,
In heaven we shall each other see
And never part again,
And never part again,
And never part again,
In heaven we shall each other see
And never part again.

Chorus

Text Box: Family Musical Heritage

Text Box: “A heritage we have to claim,
And proud we are to bear the name
Of those who founded this our clan
Led on always by God’s own hand.”