A beautiful, sacred work for SATB choir with music by Kevin G. Pace and text by Mark R. Fotheringham. This piece has a minimum purchase requirement of 7 copies. The price is set low to enable you to purchase enough copies for your choir. For larger choirs, please purchase sufficient copies (at least one copy for each two choir members).

YouTube video: Calvary is Far Away, choir

Text:

Calvary is far away

On a little hill,

Where the Son was crucified

To fulfill God's will.

Rock and stone washed clean with time

No longer bear the stain

Of blood our Savior shed for man,

By whom the Lord was slain.

Nature wept to hide the deed.

Wind would scour His pain,

To leave behind a promise true

That we shall live again.

Far too is Gethsemane,

Hidden 'midst the trees,

Where he suffered for our sins,

Fallen on His knees.

There he drank the bitter cup,

With none His pain to ease.

The forest silent to HIs groans

Dispersed upon the breeze.

Ev'ry bough in reverence bent

To His grief unseen,

In honor of His sacrifice,

That man could now be clean.

Christ is not so far away,

Nor His loving care.

All creation sings His praise,

Knowing He is there.

See Him in each blooming flower,

In rivers streaming by.

Then feel Him in each mighty gale,

Each snowflake in the sky.

Glory Lord is thine alone.

Earth still sings Thy fame,

'Til all shall bow before Thy throne,