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Play “Christ's Ascension, and the Gift of the Spirit”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Christ's Ascension, and the Gift of the Spirit (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 4 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 OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois), a Long Meter (8.8.8.8) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1LORD, when thou didst ascend on high,
- Ten thousand angels filled the sky;
- Those heavenly guards around thee wait,
- Like chariots that attend thy state.
- 2Not Sinai's mountain could appear
- More glorious when the Lord was there,
- While he pronounced his holy law,
- And struck the chosen tribes with awe.
- 3How bright the triumph none can tell,
- When the rebellious powers of hell,
- That thousand souls had captive made,
- Were all in chains like captives led.
- 4Raised by his Father to the throne,
- He sent his promised Spirit down,
- With gifts and grace for rebel men,
- That God might dwell on earth again.
About this music
OLD 100TH — Louis Bourgeois. Setting: Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter, 1561.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from ccel from Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter 1561. Words: "Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church", 1875, hymn 405.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Christ's Ascension, and the Gift of the Spirit page.
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