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Play “Happy is He, whose early years”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Happy is He, whose early years (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) 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.
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- 1Happy is he whose early years
- Receive instructions well;
- Who hates the sinner’s path, and fears
- The road that leads to hell.
- 2’Tis easier work, if we begin
- To serve the Lord betimes;
- While sinners, who grow old in sin,
- Are hardened by their crimes.
- 3It saves us from a thousand snares
- To mind religion young:
- With joy it crowns succeeding years,
- And makes our virtue strong.
- 4To Thee, almighty God! to Thee
- Our hearts we now resign:
- ’Twill please us, to look back and see,
- That our whole lives were Thine!
About this music
ST. ANNE — William Croft. Setting: composite found in "The Lutheran Hymnary", 1913.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'The Lutheran Hymnary', 1913, Hymn 261. Arrangement is composite, first half from "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869, Hymn 231. ed William Henry Monk Second half is from "The Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer", 1890, Hymn 279. ed. Charles Vincent, D.J. Wood, John Stainer; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Happy is He, whose early years page.
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