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Play “Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me (Philip Doddridge): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) in four-part harmony, 4 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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- 1See Israel's gentle Shepherd stand,
- With all engaging charms;
- Hark, how He calls the tender lambs
- And folds them in His arms!
- 2Permit them to approach, He cries,
- Nor scorn their humble name:
- It was to bless such souls as these,
- The Lord of angels came.
- 3We bring them, Lord, with grateful hearts
- And yield them up to Thee,
- Joyful that we ourselves are Thine;
- Thine let our children be!
- 4Amen.
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 Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me page.
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