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Play “Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain”

Free same-meter accompaniment for Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain (St. John of Damascus; J. M. Neale): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ELLACOMBE (Wurttemberg, 1784 from Gesangbuch der Herzogl. Hofkapelle) in four-part harmony, 5 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 ELLACOMBE (Wurttemberg, 1784 from Gesangbuch der Herzogl. Hofkapelle), a 7.6.7.6 D tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.

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  1. 1Come, yefaithful, raise the strain
  2. Of triumphant gladness:
  3. God hath brought His Israel
  4. Into joy from sadness;
  5. Loosed from Pharaoh’s bitter yoke
  6. Jacob’s sons and daughters,
  7. Led them with unmoistened foot
  8. Thro' the Red Sea waters.
  9. 2’Tis the spring of souls today;
  10. Christ hath burst His prison,
  11. And from three days’ sleep in death,
  12. As a sun hath risen:
  13. All the winter of our sins,
  14. long and dark, is flying
  15. From His light, to whom we, give
  16. Laud and praise undying.
  17. 3Now the queen of seasons, bright
  18. With the day of splendor,
  19. With the royal feast of feasts,
  20. Comes its joy to render;
  21. Comes to glad Jerusalem,
  22. Who with true affection
  23. Welcomes in unwearied strains
  24. Jesus' resurrection.
  25. 4Neither could the gates of death,
  26. Nor the tomb’s dark portal,
  27. Nor the watchers nor the seal,
  28. Hold Thee as a mortal.
  29. But today amidst Thine own
  30. Thou didst stand bestowing,
  31. Lord, Thy peace, which evermore
  32. Passeth human knowing.
  33. 5Amen.

About this music

ELLACOMBE — Wurttemberg, 1784 from Gesangbuch der Herzogl. Hofkapelle. Setting: Presbyterian Hymnal, 1911.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Presbyterian Hymnal, Revised, 1911 Hymn 364.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain page.

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