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Play “The Bridegroom Cometh”
Free same-meter accompaniment for The Bridegroom Cometh (Charles Wesley): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune DARWALL'S 148TH (John Darwall) in four-part harmony, 3 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 DARWALL'S 148TH (John Darwall), a 6.6.6.6.8.8 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Ye virgin souls, arise,
- With all the dead awake!
- Unto salvation wise,
- Oil in your vessels take:
- Upstarting at the midnight cry,
- Behold the heavenly Bridegroom nigh.
- 2He comes, he comes, to call
- The nations to his bar,
- And raise to glory all
- Who fit for glory are;
- Make ready for your full reward,
- Go forth with joy to meet your Lord.
- 3Go, meet him in the sky,
- Your everlasting Friend;
- Your Head to glorify,
- With all his saints ascend:
- Ye pure in heart, obtain the grace
- To see, without a vail, his face!
About this music
DARWALL'S 148TH — John Darwall. Setting: "Common Service Book" (ULCA), 1917.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'Common Service Book with Hymnal', ULCA 1918 Hymn 68. Lyrics from Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book, 1931 Hymn 11.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the The Bridegroom Cometh page.
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