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Play “The Lord's Day”
Free same-meter accompaniment for The Lord's Day (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams) 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 ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams), a Short Meter (6.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Welcome, sweet day of rest,
- That saw the Lord arise;
- Welcome to this reviving breast,
- And these rejoicing eyes.
- 2The King Himself comes near
- And feasts His saints to-day;
- Here may we seek, and see Him here,
- And love, and praise, and pray.
- 3One day of prayer and praise
- His sacred courts within,
- Is sweeter than ten thousand days
- Of pleasurable sin.
- 4My willing soul would stay
- In such a frame as this,
- And wait to hail the brighter day
- Of everlasting bliss.
About this music
ST. THOMAS — Aaron Williams. Setting: "The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1905.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Episcopal Hymnal, 1905 Hymn 485.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the The Lord's Day page.
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