Choral Akari Archive

Nearer, My God, to Thee

Hymn Information

Folder: Main III, no. 54
Tune used, name: 'Bethany (Mason)'
Composer: Mason, Lowell (1792–1872); composed in 1856
Lyricist: Adams, Sarah Flower (1805–1848); written in 1840
Source used for representative text: from hymnary.org, Our Great Redeemer's Praise #345

Resources and Audios

Sheet music, project file and MIDI:

Audio files (separate parts for Lead, Accompaniment I, Accompaniment II and Bass):

Audio file (all parts combined):

Representative Text

1
Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!
E'en though it be a cross that raiseth me,
still all my song shall be:
nearer, my God, to Thee;
nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!

2
Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down,
darkness be over me, my rest a stone;
yet in my dreams I'd be
nearer, my God, to Thee;
nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!

3
There let the way appear, steps unto heav'n;
all that Thou sendest me, in mercy giv'n;
angels to beckon me
nearer, my God, to Thee;
nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!

4
Then, with my waking thoughts bright with Thy praise,
out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll raise;
so by my woes to be
nearer, my God, to Thee;
nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!

5 (not sung here)
Or if on joyful wing cleaving the sky,
sun, moon, and stars forgot, upward I fly,
still all my song shall be:
nearer, my God, to Thee;
nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!