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My Purchased Files| Text: | Joy to the World! the Lord Is Come |
| Author: | Isaac Watts |
| Tune: | ANTIOCH |
| Arranger: | Lowell Mason |
| Composer (attributed to): | Georg Frederick Handel |
134. Joy to the World! the Lord Is Come
| Text Information | |
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| First Line: | Joy to the world! the Lord is come |
| Title: | Joy to the World! the Lord Is Come |
| Author: | Isaac Watts (1719, alt.) |
| Meter: | CM w. repeat |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 1998 |
| Scripture: | ; |
| Topic: | Jesus Christ: Birth |
| Tune Information | |
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| Name: | ANTIOCH |
| Composer (attributed to): | Georg Frederick Handel (1741) |
| Arranger: | Lowell Mason (1848) |
| Meter: | CM w. repeat |
| Key: | D Major |
Text Information:
This is Congregationalist Watts' paraphrase of Psalm 98. His free paraphrasing helped wean churchgoers from singing only literal renditions of the Psalms
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