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Play “The Royal Banners Forward Go”
Free same-meter accompaniment for The Royal Banners Forward Go (Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus; J. M. Neale): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 6 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 royal banners forward go,
- The Cross shines forth in mystic glow;
- Where He in flesh, our flesh Who made,
- Our sentence bore, our ransom paid.
- 2There whilst He hung, His sacred side
- By soldier's spear was opened wide,
- To cleanse us in the precious flood
- Of water mingled with His blood.
- 3Fulfilled is now what David told
- In true prophetic song of old,
- How God the heathen's King should be;
- For God is reigning from the Tree.
- 4O Tree of glory, Tree most fair,
- Ordained those holy limbs to bear,
- How bright in purpose robe it stood,
- The purple of a Saviour's blood!
- 5Upon its arms, like balance true,
- He weighed the price for sinners due,
- The price which none but He could pay,
- And spoiled the spoiler of his prey.
- 6To Thee, eternal Three in One,
- Let homage meet by all be done:
- As by the Cross Thou dost restore,
- So rule and guide us evermore.
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 Royal Banners Forward Go page.
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