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Free same-meter accompaniment for The Golden Gates (Cecil Frances Alexander): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. ANNE (William Croft) in four-part harmony, 5 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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- 1The golden gates are lifted up,
- The doors are opened wide;
- The King of Glory is gone in
- Unto His Father's side.
- 2Thou art gone up before us, Lord,
- To make for us a place,
- That we may be where now Thou art,
- And look upon God's face.
- 3And ever on our earthly path
- A gleam of glory lies,
- A light still breaks behind the cloud
- That veiled Thee from our eyes.
- 4Lift up our hearts, lift up our minds:
- Let Thy dear grace be given,
- That, while we wander here below,
- Our treasure be in heaven;
- 5That where Thou art, at God's right hand,
- Our hope, our love, may be:
- Dwell Thou in us, that we may dwell
- For evermore in Thee.
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 The Golden Gates page.
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