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Free same-meter accompaniment for O happy is the man who hears (Michael Bruce): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) in four-part harmony, 5 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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- 1O happy is the man who hears
- Instruction's warning voice;
- And who celestial Wisdom makes
- His early, only choice.
- 2For she has treasures greater far
- Than east or west unfold;
- And her rewards more precious are
- Than all their stores of gold.
- 3In her right hand she holds to view
- A length of happy days;
- Riches, with splendid honours joined,
- Are what her left displays.
- 4She guides the young with innocence,
- In pleasure's paths to tread,
- A crown of glory she bestows
- Upon the hoary head.
- 5According as her labours rise,
- So her rewards increase;
- Her ways are ways of pleasantness,
- And all her paths are peace.
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 O happy is the man who hears page.
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