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Play “Go Ye Therefore”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Go Ye Therefore (Joshua Marsden): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) 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 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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- 1Go, ye messengers of God;
- Like the beams of morning, fly;
- Take the wonder-working rod;
- Wave the banner-cross on high.
- 2Go to many a tropic isle
- In the bosom of the deep,
- Where the skies forever smile,
- And th' oppress'd forever weep.
- 3O'er the pagan's night of care
- Pour the living light of heaven;
- Chase away his wild despair;
- Bid him hope to be forgiven.
- 4Where the golden gates of day
- Open on the palmy East,
- High the bleeding cross display;
- Spread the gospel's richest feast.
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 Go Ye Therefore page.
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