6303 | The Cyber Hymnal#6304 | 6305 |
Text: | Sweeter Sounds Than Music Knows |
Author: | John Newton |
Tune: | ALETTA |
Composer: | William Batchelder Bradbury |
Media: | MIDI file |
1. Sweeter sounds than music knows
Charm me, in Emmanuel’s name;
All her hopes my spirit owes
To His birth, and cross, and shame.
2. When He came the angels sang
Glory be to God on high,
Lord, unloose my stammering tongue,
Who should louder sing than I.
3. Did the Lord a man become
That He might the law fulfill,
Bleed and suffer in my room,
And canst thou, my tongue, be still?
4. No, I must my praises bring,
Though they worthless are, and weak;
For should I refuse to sing
Sure the very stones would speak.
5. O my Savior, shield, and sun,
Shepherd, brother, husband, friend,
Every precious name in one;
I will love Thee without end.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Sweeter sounds than music knows |
Title: | Sweeter Sounds Than Music Knows |
Author: | John Newton (1779) |
Meter: | 77.77 |
Language: | English |
Source: | Olney Hymns (London: W. Oliver, 1779), number 37 |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Notes: | Alternate tunes: MONKLAND, John Antes, circa 1790; arranged by John B. Wilkes, 1861; PLEYEL'S HYMN, Ignaz J. Pleyel, 1791 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ALETTA |
Composer: | William Batchelder Bradbury (1858) |
Meter: | 77.77 |
Incipit: | 35122 12335 12223 |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | Jubilee (New York: 1858) |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
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