Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
Henry Alford's harvest hymn to George Elvey's tune St. George, on Elvey's own harmony as Hymns Ancient and Modern printed it in 1861, for 2 to 4 singers: the first verse and the last, steady and bright, every line one breath.
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The first verse
Words: Henry Alford (1844; verse 4 as he revised it for The Year of Praise, 1867)Tune: George J. Elvey, "St. George" (1861; today "St. George's, Windsor")
Come, ye thankful people, come,Raise the song of HarvestHome!All is safely gathered in,Ere the winterstorms begin;God, our Maker, doth provideFor our wants to be supplied;Come to God's own Temple, come;Raise the song of HarvestHome!
About Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come is Henry Alford's harvest hymn, dated 1844 in his collected poems. Harvest-home was the old name for the end of harvest and its celebration. In 1865 Alford complained that his hymn had been "much disfigured by alterations made without the author's consent", and said he was "responsible for this form of it only". Its tune, St. George, is George J. Elvey's, and Hymns Ancient and Modern set the hymn to it in 1861, with Elvey's own four parts. Our arrangement is read from that page, in G, adapted for beginners. These are the first verse and the last, for 2 to 4 singers, steady and bright, every line one breath; the last is Alford's own revised verse of 1867, "Even so, Lord, quickly come".
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