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Play “Fling Out the Banner! Let It Float”

Free same-meter accompaniment for Fling Out the Banner! Let It Float (George Washington Doane): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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 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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  1. 1Fling out the banner! let it float
  2. Skyward and seaward, high and wide;
  3. The sun that lights its shining folds,
  4. The cross on which the Saviour died.
  5. 2Fling out the banner! angels bend
  6. In anxious silence o'er the sign,
  7. And vainly seek to comprehend
  8. The wonder of the love Divine.
  9. 3Fling out the banner! heathen lands
  10. Shall see from far the glorious sight,
  11. And nations, crowding to be born,
  12. Baptize their spirits in its light.
  13. 4Fling out the banner! let it float
  14. Skyward and seaward, high and wide;
  15. Our glory, only in the cross;
  16. Our only hope, the Crucified!
  17. 5Fling out the banner! wide and high,
  18. Seaward and skyward, let it shine:
  19. Nor skill, nor might, nor merit ours;
  20. We conquer only in that sign.

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 Fling Out the Banner! Let It Float page.

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