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Play “Resurrection of the Saints”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Resurrection of the Saints (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams) 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. THOMAS (Aaron Williams), a Short Meter (6.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1And must this body die?
- This mortal frame decay?
- And must these active limbs of mine
- Lie mould'ring in the clay?
- 2Corruption, earth, and worms,
- Shall but refine this flesh,
- Till my triumphant spirit comes
- To put it on afresh.
- 3God, my Redeemer, lives,
- And ever, from the skies,
- Looks down and watches all my dust,
- Till He shall bid it rise.
- 4Arrayed in glorious grace
- Shall these vile bodies shine,
- And every shape, and every face,
- Look heav'nly and divine.
- 5These lively hopes we owe
- To Jesus' dying love;
- We would adore His grace below,
- And sing His power above.
- 6Dear Lord, accept the praise
- Of these our humble songs,
- Till tunes of nobler sound we raise
- With our immortal tongues.
About this music
ST. THOMAS — Aaron Williams. Setting: "The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1905.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Episcopal Hymnal, 1905 Hymn 485.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Resurrection of the Saints page.
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