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Play “Jesus! the Name High over All”

Free same-meter accompaniment for Jesus! the Name High over All (Charles Wesley): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) in four-part harmony, 6 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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  1. 1Jesus! the name high over all,
  2. In hell, or earth, or sky;
  3. Angels and men before it fall,
  4. And devils fear and fly.
  5. 2Jesus! the name to sinners dear,
  6. The name to sinners given;
  7. It scatters all their guilty fear,
  8. It turns their hell to heaven.
  9. 3Jesus the prisoner's fetters breaks,
  10. And bruises Satan's head;
  11. Power into strengthless souls it speaks,
  12. And life into the dead.
  13. 4O that the world might taste and see
  14. The riches of His grace!
  15. The arms of love that compass me
  16. Would all mankind embrace.
  17. 5His only righteousness I show,
  18. His saving truth proclaim;
  19. 'Tis all my business here below
  20. To cry, "Behold the Lamb!"
  21. 6Happy, if with my latest breath
  22. I may but gasp His name;
  23. Preach Him to all, and cry in death,
  24. "Behold, behold the Lamb!"

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 Jesus! the Name High over All page.

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