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Play “The Heavens Receive the Body of Jesus”
Free same-meter accompaniment for The Heavens Receive the Body of Jesus (Charles Wesley): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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.
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- 1Our Lord is risen from the dead;
- Our Savior is gone up on high;
- The pow'rs of hell are captive led,
- Dragged to the portals of the sky.
- 2There His triumphal chariot waits,
- And angels chant the solemn lay:
- "Lift up your heads, ye heavenly gates,
- Ye everlasting doors, give way!"
- 3Loose all your bars of massy light,
- And wide unfold the radiant scene;
- He claims those mansions as His right;
- Receive the King of glory in.
- 4Who is the King of glory, who?
- The Lord of glorious pow'r possessed,
- The King of saints and angels too,
- God over all, forever blessed.
About this music
OLD 100TH — Louis Bourgeois. Setting: Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter, 1561.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from ccel from Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter 1561. Words: "Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church", 1875, hymn 405.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the The Heavens Receive the Body of Jesus page.
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