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Free same-meter accompaniment for New Year's Day (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.
Sung here to ST. ANNE (William Croft), a Common Meter (8.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Sing to the great Jehovah's praise!
- All praise to Him belongs;
- Who kindly lengthens out our days,
- Demands our choicest songs.
- 2His providence hath brought us through
- Another various year;
- We all with vows and anthems new
- Before our God appear.
- 3Father, Thy mercies past we own,
- Thy still continued care;
- To Thee presenting, through Thy Son,
- Whate'er we have or are.
- 4Our lips and lives shall gladly show
- The wonders of Thy love,
- While on in Jesus' steps we go
- To see Thy face above.
- 5Our residue of days or hours
- Thine, wholly Thine, shall be,
- And all our consecrated powers
- A sacrifice to Thee:
- 6Till Jesus in the clouds appear
- To saints on earth forgiven,
- And bring the grand sabbatic year
- The Jubilee of heaven.
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 New Year's Day page.
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