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Come, Ye Thankful People, Come: the melody (soprano)

The melody of Come, Ye Thankful People, Come, sung by the soprano, in G, from D4 to E5. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Carries Elvey's tune, most often on B, up to its top E only in the last three lines of each verse, on "supplied;", "Come to" and the "the" of "Raise the song" in verse 1, and on "abide:", "Come, with" and the "the" of "Raise the glorious" in verse 4, and down to its low D only on the last word of the fourth line, "begin;" and "sin;".

Range
D4 to E5
Key
G
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About Come, Ye Thankful People, Come

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 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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