We Wave Our Branches and We Shout Hosanna - A New Hymn

Here is another of my attempts at hymnody - We Wave Our Branches and We Shout Hosanna! - in which I have arranged Psalm 47 and John 12: 12 - 16 to be sung to the popular hymn tune Sine Nomine (which means "without a name.")  That melody was composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958) and is familiar to many as the hymn For All the Saints.

1 O clap your hands, all peoples of the earth,
shout to the Lord with your loud songs of joy
for he is king and all the world is his;
we wave our branches and we shout hosanna!

2 We gather here as people of the Lord
to sing to God, sing praises with a psalm
and he will save the people that he loves;
we wave our branches and we shout hosanna!

3 God has ascended amid shouts of joy.
We praise his name with trumpets and our songs.
We will not fear, behold our king is come;
we wave our branches and we shout hosanna!