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Play “The Lord is King!”
Free same-meter accompaniment for The Lord is King! (Josiah Conder): 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.
Sung here to OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois), a Long Meter (8.8.8.8) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1The Lord is King! lift up thy voice,
- O earth and all ye heav'ns, rejoice!
- From world to world the joy shall ring:
- The Lord Omnipotent is King!
- 2The Lord is King! who then shall dare
- Resist His will, distrust His care?
- Holy and true are all His ways;
- Let ev'ry creature speak His praise.
- 3The Lord is King! exalt your strains,
- Ye saints, your God, your Father, reigns;
- One Lord and Savior all secures;
- He reigns, and life and death are yours.
- 4Amen.
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 Lord is King! page.
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