Stairway to Lasting Joy
Author: Mabel Jones Gabbott
Composer: Robert Cundick
Languages (17)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Chinese (Traditional): [Unknown title]
- Danish: Stigen til varig glæde
- Dutch: De trap naar de eeuw’ge vreugd
- English: Stairway to Lasting Joy
- Finnish: Portaat kestävään iloon
- French: L’escalier merveilleux
- German: Treppe zur ewigen Freude
- Icelandic: Það er til leið
- Italian: La scala della gioia eterna
- Japanese: [Unknown title]
- Korean: [Unknown title]
- Norwegian: På den himmelske sti
- Portuguese: Caminho para a Alegria Eterna
- Samoan: Auala e Tau Atu I Le Fiafia e Faavavau
- Spanish: Escalera al gozo sin fin
- Swedish: Trappan till evig glädje
- Tongan: Hala ki he Fiefia
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Most common tunes for “Stairway to Lasting Joy”
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Appearances of “Stairway to Lasting Joy” over time
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Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1969 or earlier.
In copyright (IRI?)
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: Barnens sånger (1967), no. 221.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
1. Children: There’s a beautiful stairway that we would climb, Leading upward to lasting joy. There are steps to be taken along the way, that help ev’ry girl and boy. We must love and have faith, we must try to obey, We must lengthen our learning and we must pray, For true joy everlasting awaits us there, when we’ve climbed up each beautiful stair.
2. Teachers: We are they who will guide you and teach you truth, As you climb up the beautiful stair. Oh, the way is not hidden from eager youth, For we will be standing there. If we live as we teach, and you learn to obey, You will climb up the stairway for this is the way. All: And the joy everlasting that waits us there, is for all who would climb that stair.