WELCOME, HAPPY MORNING / KABO, OJO RERE

1. PROCESSIONAL HYMN MHB 212 Y 132 EMHB 212 1. Welcome, happy morning! Age to age shall say: Hell to-day is vanquished; Heaven is won to-day! Lo! the dead is living, God for evermore! Him, their true Creator, all His works adore. Welcome, happy morning! Age to age shall say. 2. Earth with joy confesses, clothing her for spring, All good gifts returned with her returning King; Bloom in every meadow, leaves on every bough, Speak His sorrows ended, hail His triumph now. 3. Thou, of life the Author, death didst undergo, Tread the path of darkness, saving strength to show; Come, then, True and Faithful, now fulfil Thy word; ‘Tis Thine own third morning; Rise, O buried Lord! 4. Loose the souls long prisoned, bound with Satan’s chain; All that now is fallen raise to life again; Show Thy face in brightness, bid the nations see; Bring again our daylight, day returns with Thee. YMHB 132 1. “Kabo, ojo rere,” l’ao ma wi titi; A sete ‘ku loni, orun di tiwa. Wo, oku d’ alaye, Oba titi lai! Gbogb’ eda njuba Re, On l’ Eleda won! “Kabo, ojo rere,” l’ao ma wi titi; A sete ‘ku loni, orun di tiwa. 2. Eleda, Oluwa, Emi alaye! Lat’ orun l’O ti bojuwo ‘sina wa: Om’ Olorun papa, ni ‘Wo tile se, K’O ba le gba wa la, O di enia. 3. ‘Wo, Oluwa iye, O wa to ‘ku wo, Lati f’ ipa Re han, O sun n’ iboji; Wa, Eni Oloto, si m’ oro Re se, Ojo keta Re de, jinde Oluwa! 4. Tu igbekun sile, t’ Esu de l’ ewon; Awon t’ o si subu, jo gbe won dide; F’ ojurere Re han, je k’ aiye reran; Tun mu ‘mole wa de, ‘Wo sa ni ‘mole.