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Play “Angels! Roll the Rock Away”

Free same-meter accompaniment for Angels! Roll the Rock Away (Thomas Scott): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) in four-part harmony, 6 verses, with the words on screen. Choose the key and speed, add an introduction, project the words on a TV, or practice your own choir part. Made for churches and home groups without a musician.

Sung here to CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons), a 7.7.7.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.

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  1. 1Angel, roll the rock away;
  2. Death, yield up thy mighty prey!
  3. See, He rises from the tomb,
  4. Glowing in immortal bloom,
  5. Glowing in immortal bloom.
  6. 2'Tis the Savior! Angels, raise
  7. Fame's eternal trump of praise;
  8. Let the world's remotest bound
  9. Hear the joy-inspiring sound,
  10. Hear the joy-inspiring sound.
  11. 3Heav'n displays its portals wide;
  12. Glorious Hero, thro' them ride!
  13. King of glory, mount Thy throne,
  14. Thy great Father's and Thine own!
  15. Thy great Father's and Thine own!
  16. 4Host of heav'n, seraphic fires!
  17. Raptured sweep your sounding lyres;
  18. Sons of men, in humbler strain,
  19. Sing your mighty Savior's reign!
  20. Sing your mighty Savior's reign!
  21. 5Ev'ry note with wonder swell;
  22. Sin o'erthrown, and captive hell!
  23. Where, O death, is now thy sting?
  24. Where thy terrors, vanquished king?
  25. Where thy terrors, vanquished King?
  26. 6Amen.

About this music

CANTERBURY — Orlando Gibbons. 'Canterbury' or 'Song 13' Orlando Gibbons, 1623. Setting: "Common Service Book" (ULCA), 1917.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'Common Service Book With Hymnal' ULCA, 1917 Hymn 156.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Angels! Roll the Rock Away page.

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