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Free same-meter accompaniment for Praise to the Redeemer (Isaac Watts): 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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- 1Plunged in a gulf of dark despair,
- We wretched sinners lay,
- Without one cheerful beam of hope
- Or spark of glimmering day.
- 2With pitying eyes the Prince of Grace
- Behold our helpless grief;
- He saw, and--oh, amazing love!--
- He ran to our relief.
- 3Down from the shining seats above,
- With joyful haste he fled,
- Entered the grave in mortal flesh,
- And dwelt among the dead.
- 4Oh, for this love, let rocks and hills
- Their lasting silence break,
- And all harmonious human tongues
- The Saviour's praises speak.
- 5Angels, assist our mighty joys,
- Strike all your harps of gold;
- But when you raise your highest notes,
- His love can ne'er be told.
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 Praise to the Redeemer page.
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