Hymn tune
ST. THOMAS
ST. THOMAS is a hymn tune in Short Meter (6.6.8.6), composed by Aaron Williams (1731–1776). 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 2 hymns, listed below, and 123 more texts in the same meter can be sung to it.
The four-part harmony played here comes from the Open Hymnal Project's public-domain edition (copied from Episcopal Hymnal, 1905 Hymn 485.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to ST. THOMAS, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.
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Hymns sung to ST. THOMAS
Other texts in the same meter
- Blest Be the Tie That Binds — Blest be the tie that binds
- A Charge to Keep I Have — A charge to keep I have,
- My Soul, Be on Thy Guard — My soul, be on thy guard,
- Soldiers of Christ, Arise — Soldiers of Christ, arise
- Grace! 'Tis a Charming Sound — Grace! ’tis a charming sound,
- The Lord's Day — Welcome, sweet day of rest,
- One Sweetly Solemn Thought — One sweetly solemn thought
- Blessedness of Gospel Times — How beauteous are their feet,
- Awake and Sing the Song — Awake, and sing the song
- Come, Sound His Praise — Come, sound His praise abroad,
- How Gentle God's Commands — How gentle God's commands,
- The Horrors of the Second death — Oh, where shall rest be found,