This page is provided so that you can hear the tunes of items which we use in church. Mostly they are written by the vicar. Please note that they are copyright - we are very happy to give permission to you to use them, but we would like to hear about it. Please include any use on your Christian Copyright Licence returns.
Down this page:
- the words,
- the story,
- the sheet music,
- media player.
Let us praise our God
Let us praise our God
Let us praise our God
in the silence of our hearts,
where, far beyond earth's reach,
the soul stands mute
in the presence of the Lord,
beyond the need for speech.
Let us praise our God
in the company of friends,
with those we love the best,
as Jesus did
in the house at Bethany
where he was most at rest.
Let us praise our God
as we worship here today,
our voices raised in song.
Let's lift our hearts,
as it's meet and right to do,
in church, where we belong.
Let us praise our God
wheresoever we may be
at every time of day,
and give him thanks,
who has died upon the cross
to take our sins away.
Let us praise our God
who has risen from the dead
and led the way on high,
that all believers
may follow where he leads,
and, living, never die.
Let us shout aloud:
Praise our God!
Praise our God!
Words copyright © Pam Gidney 2006.
Music copyright © John Hartley 2006.
Story behind the song
I wrote this hymn some years ago, to take to a day-long course in London on hymn-writing and composing music for hymns. I thought that "Praise" would be a good theme. The hymn-writers running the course liked the hymn very much, but said that it needed a good tune. All these years later, thanks to John, I think that that need has now been fulfilled!
Pam Gidney.
After I had suggested a tune to Pam's hymn "He will come" which appeared in "Worship Live", Pam sent me this hymn with the comment "This needs a tune". So here is one. I'm very grateful to Pam for consenting to some very small changes in the words so that the meter fits the tune better.
John Hartley
Windows Media Player. When you click the left-hand "play" button your computer should have started to play the tune. If it didn't, you might be able to get the tune by clicking here, or by right-clicking the link, choosing "save target as", saving it onto your computer, and then opening it with a music-playing program.
Please remember that a midi file of a tune isn't supposed to be a state-of-the-art musical arrangement - it is only supposed to give a basic idea of how the tune goes. Any reasonable organist / keyboard player / music group could make it sound far better.