“Sweet Beulah Land” was written by the southern gospel singer and songwriter Squire Parsons. He wrote it in 1973, drawing on a memory of his father leading an older Beulah Land hymn in their small West Virginia church, and recorded it later in the decade.
The song looks toward heaven, the Beulah Land of scripture. The singer, weary of this world, sets his hope on that promised country and on the rest and reunion waiting there; the chorus reaches toward it with longing.
“Sweet Beulah Land” became a southern gospel standard and passed into bluegrass gospel. The version heard here is by Paul Williams and the Victory Trio.
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