Hymn tune
PASS ME NOT O GENTLE SAVIOR
PASS ME NOT O GENTLE SAVIOR is a hymn tune in 8.5.8.5.9.8.5, composed by W. Howard Doane (1832–1915) (1870). In a hymnal the tune has a name of its own, printed in capitals, because the same music carries many texts: any hymn written in its meter can be sung to it.
In this library it is the tune for 1 hymn, listed below.
The four-part harmony played here comes from the Open Hymnal Project's public-domain edition (copied from "The Coronation" 1872 page 269.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to PASS ME NOT O GENTLE SAVIOR, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.
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