Shouting on the Hills of Glory

The song is a heaven song built on repetition. Each verse states a line twice and then comes back to the refrain about shouting on the hills of God. The verses look ahead to a joyful reunion over yonder, urge the listener to get ready and book a place now, and promise a city with no sorrow, where Jesus has prepared a home.

Carter Stanley died in December 1966, and Ralph kept the song in his repertoire. He recorded it with the Clinch Mountain Boys at Jessup Recording Studios in Jackson, Michigan, on 3 October 1971. Roy Lee Centers and Keith Whitley played guitars, Ricky Skaggs mandolin, Curly Ray Cline fiddle and Jack Cooke bass. Jessup released it in 1973 on Sings Gospel Echoes of the Stanley Brothers. Stanley cut it again in Nashville for Clinch Mountain Country (Rebel, 1998), a two-CD set billed as Ralph Stanley & Friends. On that version Ricky Skaggs sang lead and played mandolin, Stanley sang tenor, Jack Cooke baritone and Shelton Feazell bass.

Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys sang it at Cathedral Caverns in Alabama on 4 July 1982. Wayne Lewis led and Monroe sang tenor, and the performance was released in 2007 on Bear Family’s My Last Days on Earth. Melvin Goins recorded it for I Wouldn’t Miss It (Rebel, 2004).