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Play “New Year's Day”
Free same-meter accompaniment for New Year's Day (John Newton): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. GEORGE'S WINDSOR (George J. Elvey) in four-part harmony, 3 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. GEORGE'S WINDSOR (George J. Elvey), a 7.7.7.7 D tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1While, with ceaseless course, the sun
- Hasted through the circling year,
- Many souls their race have run,
- Never more to meet us here;
- Fixed in an eternal state,
- They have done with all below;
- We a little longer wait,
- But how little--none can know.
- 2As the winged arrow flies
- Speedily the mark to find;
- As the lightning from the skies
- Darts, and leaves no trace behind;
- Swiftly thus our fleeting days
- Bear us down life's rapid stream;
- Upward, Lord, our spirits raise;
- All below is but a dream.
- 3Thanks for mercies past receive;
- Pardon of our sins renew;
- Teach us henceforth how to live
- With eternity in view;
- Bless Thy word to young and old;
- Fill us with a Saviour's love;
- And when life's short tale is told,
- May we dwell with Him above.
About this music
ST. GEORGE'S WINDSOR — George J. Elvey. 'St. George`s Windsor', George Job Elvey, 1858. Setting: "The Anglican Hymn Book", 1871.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from "The Anglican Hymn Book", 1871, Hymn 361; 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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