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Play “Songs of Praise”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Songs of Praise (James Montgomery): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) 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 CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons), a 7.7.7.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Songs of praise the angels sang,
- Heav'n with alleluias rang,
- When Jehovah's work begun,
- When He spake and it was done.
- 2Songs of praise awoke the morn
- When the Prince of Peace was born;
- Songs of praise arose when He
- Captive led captivity.
- 3Heav'n and earth must pass away,
- Songs of praise shall crown that day,
- God will make new heav'ns and earth,
- Songs of praise shall hail their birth.
- 4And shall man alone be dumb
- Till that glorious kingdom come?
- No, the Church delights to raise
- Psalms and hymns and songs of praise.
- 5Saints below, with heart and voice,
- Still in songs of praise rejoice;
- Learning here by faith and love,
- Songs of praise to sing above.
- 6Amen.
About this music
CANTERBURY — Orlando Gibbons. 'Canterbury' or 'Song 13' Orlando Gibbons, 1623. Setting: "Common Service Book" (ULCA), 1917.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'Common Service Book With Hymnal' ULCA, 1917 Hymn 156.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Songs of Praise page.
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