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Thread #1540   Message #1087907
Posted By: wysiwyg
07-Jan-04 - 09:33 AM
Thread Name: Lyr: This Old World / I Will Arise and Go to Jesus
Subject: Restoration Hymn Tune: Various Texts
The CYBERHYMNAL VERSION has another MIDI as well as an interesting variation for one verse:

View Him prostrate in the garden;
On the ground your Maker lies.
On the bloody tree behold Him;
Sinner, will this not suffice?



According to OREMUS ONLINE HYMNAL, the tune has been used for a number of other texts:

<> Far, far away from my loving Father (presently inaccessible from the Oremus site)
<> I was a wandering sheep (Cyberhymnal text and alternate tune MIDIs)
<> Jesus calls us! o'er the tumult which also appears in the current Episcopal Hymnal (1982)


The Southern Harmony tune Masato linked above (where the melody is in the second line) gives this hymn and single verse:

Mercy, O thou Son of David
Mercy, O thou Son of David!
Thus blind Bartimeus prayed:
Others by thy grace are saved,
O vouchsafe to me thine aid.



Other texts with the same meter (8, 7) can be used as well.


~S~