Welcome, Happy Morning
Hymn Information
Folder: Main IV, no. 62
Tune used, name: 'Unknown tune (1767165454312)'; research in progress
Composer: research in progress
Lyricist: Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus (c. 540–c. 600); translation by Ellerton, John (1826–1893) in 1868, altered
Copyright (tune): assumed public domain
Sources used for tune:
- from a zip file from this Reddit forum, "130000 Pop Rock Classical Videogame EDM MIDI Archive[6 19 15].zip", including MIDI files with a starting file name of "him***.mid"; file name: him563.mid
- from this zip file, only containing MIDI files with starting filenames of "him***.mid" and "himno***.mid", saved on this site; file name: him563.mid
Source used for representative text: from hymnary.org, Christian Worship: Hymnal #469
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
"Welcome, happy morning!"
age to age shall say:
"Hell today is vanquished;
heav'n is won today!"
Lo, the dead is living,
God forevermore!
Him, their true Creator,
all his works adore.
Refrain:
"Welcome, happy morning!"
age to age shall say:
"Hell today is vanquished;
heav'n is won today!"
2
Maker and Redeemer,
life and health of all,
God from heav'n beholding
human nature's fall,
of the Father's Godhead
you, the only Son,
mankind to deliver
manhood did put on. [Refrain]
3
Source of all things living,
you came down to die,
plumbed the depths of hell
to raise us up on high.
Come, then, true and faithful,
come fulfill your word;
this is our third morning—
rise, O buried Lord. [Refrain]
4
Free the souls long prisoned,
bound with Satan's chain;
all that now is fallen
raise to life again.
Show your face in brightness;
shine in ev'ry land
as in Eden's garden
when the world began. [Refrain]