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Play “Let Us With a Gladsome Mind”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Let Us With a Gladsome Mind (John Milton): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) in four-part harmony, 7 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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- 1Let us with a gladsome mind
- Praise the Lord, for He is kind:
- For His mercies aye endure,
- Ever faithful, ever sure.
- 2Let us blaze His Name abroad,
- For of gods He is the God:
- For His mercies aye endure,
- Ever faithful, ever sure.
- 3He, with all-commanding might,
- Filled the new-made world with light:
- For His mercies aye endure,
- Ever faithful, ever sure.
- 4He the golden-tressed sun
- Caused all day his course to run;
- For His mercies aye endure,
- Ever faithful, ever sure.
- 5And the moon to shine by night,
- 'Mid her spangled sisters bright:
- For His mercies aye endure,
- Ever faithful, ever sure.
- 6All things living He doth feed;
- His full hand supplies their need:
- For His mercies aye endure,
- Ever faithful, ever sure.
- 7Let us therefore warble forth
- His high majesty and worth:
- For His mercies aye endure,
- Ever faithful, ever sure.
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 Let Us With a Gladsome Mind page.
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