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Play “Till He Come”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Till He Come (Edward Henry Bickersteth): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune DIX (Conrad Kocher) in four-part harmony, 3 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 DIX (Conrad Kocher), a 7.7.7.7.7.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1"Till He come:" oh, let the words
- Linger on the trembling chords;
- Let the little while between
- In their golden light be seen;
- Let us think how heaven and home
- Lie beyond that "Till he come."
- 2When the weary ones we love
- Enter on their rest above,
- Seems the earth so poor and vast,
- All our life joy overcast?
- Hush, be every murmur dumb;
- It is only "Till he come."
- 3See, the feast of love is spread,
- Drink the wine, and break the bread;
- Sweet memorials, till the Lord
- Call us round his heavenly board;
- Some from earth, from glory some,
- Severed only "Till he come."
About this music
DIX — Conrad Kocher. Setting: Conrad Kocher, 1838, alt. by William Henry Monk, 1861, alt. for "The English Hymnal", 1906.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from The English Hymnal, 1906 Hymn 39. Music from "Stimmen aus dem Reiche Gottes", 1838 by Kocher, Hymn 201 page 250. adapted by William Henry Monk from the original (removed two measures and changed parts of the arrangement) for "Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861. Also almost just like the Bristol Tune Book of 1863, Hymn 172.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Till He Come page.
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