1 Come, you thankful people, come,
raise the song of harvest home;
all is safely gathered in
safe befor the storms begin;
God, our Maker, does provide
for our needs to be supplied;
come, to God's own temple, come,
raise the song of harvest home.

2 All the world is God's own field,
harvests for god's praise to yield;
wheat and weeds together sown,
here for joy or sorrow grown:
first the blade and then the ear,
then the full corn shall appear;
Harvest-giver grant that we
wholesome grain and pure may be.

3 For our God, one day, shall come
and shall take his harvest home;
from the field shall in that day
all offense shall take away,
give his angels charge at last
in the fire the weeds to cast,
but the fruitful ears to store
in his garner evermore.

4 Even so, God, quickly come
to your final harvest home;
gather all your people in,
free from sorrow, free from sin
there, forever purified,
in your presence to abide;
come, with all your angels come,
raise the glorious harvest home.