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Play “The Pilgrim's Song”
Free same-meter accompaniment for The Pilgrim's Song (John Cennick): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) 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 CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons), a 7.7.7.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Children of the heav'nly King,
- As ye journey sweetly sing;
- Sing your Savior's worthy praise,
- Glorious in His works and ways.
- 2We are trav'ling home to God,
- In the way the fathers trod;
- They are happy now, and we
- Soon their happiness shall see.
- 3Lift your eyes, ye sons of light,
- Zion's city is in sight;
- There our Lord we soon shall see,
- There our endless home shall be.
- 4Fear not, brethren; joyful stand
- On the borders of your land,
- Jesus Christ, your Father's Son,
- Bids you undismayed go on.
- 5Lord, obediently we go,
- Gladly leaving all below;
- Only Thou our Leader be,
- And we still will follow Thee.
About this music
CANTERBURY — Orlando Gibbons. 'Canterbury' or 'Song 13' Orlando Gibbons, 1623. Setting: "Common Service Book" (ULCA), 1917.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'Common Service Book With Hymnal' ULCA, 1917 Hymn 156.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the The Pilgrim's Song page.
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