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386 Christ Our Song

Words: Isaac Watts, 1707, and John Cennick, 1764

Music: T. B. McGraw, 1935

Meter: Common Meter Double (8,6,8,6,8,6,8,6)

Copyright: 1936 Sacred Harp Publishing Company

Awake, my heart, arise, my tongue,
Prepare a tuneful voice;
In God, the life of all my joys,
Aloud will I rejoice.
When I appear in yonder cloud
With all the sacred throng,
Then will I sing more sweet, more loud,
And Christ will be my song.

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