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• Violin Duet  | Catalog # 1030.1
• Viola Duet  | Catalog # 1030.2​

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(Violin Version)

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About this Song

Music: Lowell Mason, 1792–1872
Text: Sarah F. Adams, 1805–1848
Arranged by Timothy Max, b. 1979

Lyrics

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!
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5. 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!

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