Occasionally a single song brings acclaim and recognition to a composer. He writes a song that leaps ahead of all of his other compositions. Such was the case with Squire Parsons and his most famous song, “Sweet Beulah Land.”
Parsons was born in Newton, West Virginia, in 1948. He surrendered his heart to Christ at age 9 and began his song writing ventures 11 years later. He studied music at a West Virginia college where he majored in voice and bassoon.
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While still a student, he was employed as a bass soloist for Christ United Methodist Church, in Charleston, West Virginia. He later said that it was a wonderful experience because he was exposed to the Christian classics, which influenced some of his later writing.
Looking back to Squire’s preteen years, while a member of the small church in Newton, he remembers a particular song his dad led the congregation in singing, “Is Not This the Land of Beulah?” The whole congregation seemed swept up in the song. That picture remained in young Parson’s mind.
Squire told me the following: “One morning, years later, as I was driving to my high school teaching job, my mind drifted back to a service in our little church. As I drove along I was humming the old song about ‘Beulah Land,’ which I had learned from the hymnal years earlier. As I topped one of the beautiful West Virginia mountains, I faced a brilliant sun in all of its glory. My thoughts continued to be about the singing in our little Newton church, but this time it was a different song – one that I had never heard or sung before.” It was the chorus to what has become the increasingly popular song, “Sweet Beulah Land.”
Squire added, “I traveled on to the school. It was early, and the students had not yet arrived. I found some paper and wrote the words and music to the chorus I had been given. I then wrote a single verse to go with the chorus. Five years went by before I wrote a second verse and recorded the song.”
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This song is amazingly interesting in that some phrases are used, which seem paradoxical in nature – such as being homesick for a country to which I have never been before. Faith is a key element in this highly descriptive song – faith that we hold as we look toward heaven, faith that will end in sight. The name “Beulah Land” is a term we have used for many years and one that evokes happiness and sweetness in our hearts.
“I’m kind of homesick for a country
To which I’ve never been before.
No sad goodbyes will there be spoken
For time won’t matter anymore.”
(Chorus)
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“Beulah Land, I’m longing for you
And some day on thee I’ll stand.
There my home shall be eternal.
Beulah Land – Sweet Beulah Land.”
Parsons now crisscrosses the nation, singing his songs and reminding his audiences of the beautiful prospect of Sweet Beulah Land. He has, to date, written more than 800 songs.
“And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself. That where I am, there ye may be also. – John 14:3
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