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Free same-meter accompaniment for Sweet Rivers (John A. Granade): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) 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.

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  1. 1Sweet rivers of redeeming love
  2. I see before me lie;
  3. Had I the pinions of a dove,
  4. I'd to those rivers fly.
  5. 2I'd rise superior to my pain,
  6. With joy outstrip the wind;
  7. I'd cross bold Jordan's stormy main,
  8. And leave the world behind.
  9. 3A few more days, or years at most,
  10. My troubles will be o'er;
  11. I hope to join the heavenly host
  12. On Canaan's happy shore.
  13. 4My rapturous soul shall drink and feast
  14. In love's unbounded sea:
  15. The glorious hope of endless rest
  16. Is ravishing to me.
  17. 5O, come, my Saviour, come away,
  18. And bear me to the sky!
  19. Nor let thy chariot wheels delay;
  20. Make haste and bring it nigh.
  21. 6I long to see thy glorious face,
  22. And in thine image shine;
  23. To triumph in victorious grace,
  24. And be forever thine.

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 Sweet Rivers page.

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