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Play “The Solemn Midnight Cry”
Free same-meter accompaniment for The Solemn Midnight Cry (Charles Wesley): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams) 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 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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- 1Thou Judge of quick and dead,
- Before whose bar severe,
- With holy joy, or guilty dread,
- We all shall soon appear:
- 2Our anxious souls prepare
- For that tremendous day;
- And fill us now with watchful care,
- And stir us up to pray:
- 3To pray, and wait the hour,
- That awful hour unknown,
- When, robed in majesty and power,
- Thou shalt from heaven come down.
- 4Oh, may we all be found
- Obedient to Thy Word--
- Attentive to the trumpet’s sound,
- And looking for our Lord!
- 5Oh, may we thus ensure
- A lot among the blest;
- And watch a moment, to secure
- An everlasting rest!
- 6Amen,
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 Solemn Midnight Cry page.
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