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Play “Swell the Anthem”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Swell the Anthem (Nathan Strong): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) in four-part harmony, 2 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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- 1SWELL the anthem, raise the song,
- Praises to our God belong;
- Saints and angels join to sing
- Praises to the heavenly King.
- Blessings from His liberal hand
- Flow around this happy land:
- Kept by Him, no foes annoy;
- Peace and freedom we enjoy.
- 2Here, beneath a virtuous sway
- May we cheerfully obey;
- Never feel oppression's rod,
- Ever own and worship God.
- Hark! the voice of nature sings
- Praises to the King of kings;
- let us join the choral song,
- And the grateful notes prolong.
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 Swell the Anthem page.
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