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Play “God of Our Salvation”
Free same-meter accompaniment for God of Our Salvation (John Fawcett): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune BATTY (Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz) 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 BATTY (Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz), a 8.7.8.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Praise to thee, thou great Creator!
- Praise to thee from ev'ry tongue;
- Join, my soul, with ev'ry creature,
- Join the universal song.
- 2Father! source of all compassion!
- Pure, unbounded grace is thine:
- Hail the God of our salvation,
- Praise him for his love divine!
- 3Praise to God, the great Creator,
- Father, Son, and Holy Ghost;
- Praise him ev'ry living creature,
- Earth and heav'n's united host.
- 4Joyfully on earth adore him,
- Till in heav'n our song we raise;
- Then enraptured fall before him,
- Lost in wonder, love and praise!
About this music
BATTY — Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz. Setting: "Kern des Deutschen Kirchengesangs Zum Gebrauch" Fridrich Layriz, 1854.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from "Kern des Deutschen Kirchengesangs Zum Gebrauch" Fridrich Layriz, 1854 Hymn 108. Text as found in 1871 Episcopal Hymnal; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the God of Our Salvation page.
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