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Easter Hymns

When our All-knowing, Almighty God created man in his image, he already knew what would happen, and so he planned Easter and Christmas to rescue fallen humanity.

I have written many new tunes for well-known Easter hymns, hymns we love to sing every year. Modern Easter hymns are not included because of strict copyright rules: composers can only write new tunes for hymns that are in the public domain, and there are plenty of them! However, there is one modern one, written by myself, so I own the copyright of CHRIST IS RISEN SAID THE ANGEL!
Many were written by clergymen, some great ones by women, others by laymen and scholars, one by a self-educated man who started as a farm labourer when he was 12 and rose to fame in the Moody meetings, and the earliest one by Anulf of Leuven (1250) who wrote a long poem in Latin describing the body parts of our Lord. O SACRED HEAD NOW WOUNDED has become one of the great Easter hymns.
If you go to download one of my new tunes, you will find a paragraph or two about the lyricist on the opposite page. You will also find that these are grouped in a SET of Easter Hymns. Here is a link to the Musescore set.

  1. IN THE CROSS OF CHRIST I GLORY
  2. THERE IS A GREEN HILL FAR AWAY
  3. JESUS I MY CROSS HAVE TAKEN
  4. ROCK OF AGES CLEFT FOR ME
  5. JUST AS I AM WITHOUT ONE PLEA
  6. O LOVE THAT WILL NOT LET ME GO
  7. TELL ME THE OLD OLD STORY
  8. THE HEAD THAT ONCE WAS CROWNED WITH THORNS
  9. CHRIST THE LORD IS RISEN TODAY GO PRO
  10. CHRIST IS RISEN SAID THE ANGEL GO PRO
  11. JESUS CHRIST IS RISEN TODAY
  12. JESUS CHRIST IS RISEN TODAY HALLELUJAH
  13. TO GOD BE THE GLORY
  14. AMAZING GRACE
  15. BLESSED ASSURANCE
  16. IT IS A THING MOST WONDERFUL
  17. AT THE NAME OF JESUS
  18. REJOICE THE LORD IS KING
  19. CROSS OF JESUS CROSS OF SORROW (2)
  20. MAN OF SORROWS – WHAT A NAME
  21. CROWN HIM WITH MANY CROWNS
  22. O SACRED HEAD NOW WOUNDED
  23. CHRIST IS RISEN SAID THE ANGEL 
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