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AcaDisc #82- Acappella Melodies by The Acappella Company (The Series)

Original Release: 1996 The Acappella Company
Available through The Acappella Company
Producer: Keith Lancaster and Gary Moyers
Production Assistant: Rob Williams, Gary Miller, Darin Cochran, and Larry Sparks
Engineers: Gary Miller, John Laws, Robert Orr, and Darin Cochran
Assistant Engineers: Robert C. Guy, Kevin Schaffer, Josh Harrison, Aaron Herman, Brishan Hatcher, Duane Adams, Steve Reischl, Norman Zuercher, Roy Hawkins, Chris Dowdy, Jon Owen, Jeremy Brasher, Daryl Burnett, Felipe Arias, Rob Williams, Josh Ray, and Gary Moyers
Recording Studio: Clifty Studios- Paris, TN and Ashton Recording- Paris, TN
Mixed by: Robert Orr, John Laws, Gary Miller, and Darin Cochran
Mastered by: Masterfonics
Vocals: Listed by Song

Editor's Note: For this album, there are very few words actually sung (excluding Doxology).  The leads that are listed are those that are humming the melody and the lyrics listed are mostly borrowed from Cyberhymnal.org and represent the original words to the songs.

Song List

We Gather Together
Hallelujah, What a Savior
Doxology/Christ, We Do All Adore Thee
A Wonderful Savior
Theme of Love
I Surrender All
Sweet Hour of Prayer
Fairest Lord Jesus
This is My Father's World
Angel's Longing

We Gather Together

Words and music: Adrianus Valerius (1597)
Arrangement: Gary Moyers © 1996 Clifty Music (BMI)
Lead: Gary Moyers

Lyrics:

We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing
He chastens and hastens His will to make known
The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing
Sing praises to His Name; He forgets not His own

Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining
Ordaining, maintaining His kingdom divine
So from the beginning the fight we were winning
Thou, Lord, were at our side, all glory be Thine

We all do extol Thee, Thou Leader triumphant
And pray that Thou still our Defender will be
Let Thy congregation escape tribulation
Thy Name be ever praised! O Lord, make us free!

Scriptural Reference:

"Gather together in one the children of God." John 11:52

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Hallelujah, What a Savior

Words and music: Phillip P. Bliss in International Lessons Monthly (1875)
Arrangement: Rob Williams © 1996 Clifty Music (BMI)
This song also appeared on Perfect Peace by Keith Lancaster and Acappella and Acappella Praise Service by The Acappella Company.
Lead: Steve Reischl

Lyrics:

Man of Sorrows! what a name
For the Son of God, Who came
Ruined sinners to reclaim
Hallelujah! What a Savior!

Bearing shame and scoffing rude
In my place condemned He stood
Sealed my pardon with His blood
Hallelujah! What a Savior!

Lifted up was He to die
"It is finished!" was His cry
Now in heav'n exalted high
Hallelujah! What a Savior!

When He comes, our glorious King
All His ransomed home to bring
Then anew His song we'll sing
Hallelujah! What a Savior!

Scriptural Reference:

"He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows." Isaiah 53:3

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Doxology/Christ, We Do All Adore Thee

Words to "Doxology": Thomas Ken (1674)
Music to "Doxology": Louis Bourgeois (1551)
Words and music to "Christ, We Do All Adore Thee": Theodore Dubois
Translation of "Christ, We Do All Adore Thee": Theodore Baker
"Doxology" also appeared on Favorite Hymns of the Firemen by The Firemen.
"Christ, We Do All Adore Thee" also appeared on Perfect Peace by Keith Lancaster and Acappella.
Lead:

Lyrics:

Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow
Praise Him, all creatures here below
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

Christ, we do all adore thee
And we do praise thee forever
Christ we do all adore thee
And we do praise thee forever
For on the holy cross hast thou the world from sin redeemed
Christ, we do all adore thee
And we do praise thee forever

Christ, we do all adore thee

Scriptural Reference:

"Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows." James 1:17
"He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit."  Galatians 3:14

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A Wonderful Savior

Words: Fanny Crosby in The Finest of Wheat, No. 1 (1890)
Music: William J. Kirkpatrick
Arrangement: Gary Miller © 1996 Anthony K. Music (ASCAP)
This song also appeared as "He Hideth My Soul" on Memories by The Sounds of Glory.
Lead:

Lyrics:

A wonderful Savior is Jesus my Lord
A wonderful Savior to me
He hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock
Where rivers of pleasure I see

He hideth my soul in the cleft of the rock
That shadows a dry, thirsty land
He hideth my life with the depths of His love
And covers me there with His hand
And covers me there with His hand

A wonderful Savior is Jesus my Lord, he taketh my burdens away
He holdeth me up and I shall not be moved
He giveth me strength as my day

When clothed in His brightness, transported I rise
To meet Him in clouds of the sky
His perfect salvation, His wonderful love
I'll shout with the millions on high

Scriptural Reference:

"I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by." Exodus 33:22

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Theme of Love

Music: Kevin Schaffer © 1996 Anthony K. Music (ASCAP)
Lead: Kevin Schaffer

Scriptural Reference:

"He told them, 'This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance and forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.'"  Luke 24:46-47

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I Surrender All

Words: Judson W. Van DeVenter (1896)
Music: Winfield S. Weeden (1896)
Arrangement: Duane Adams © 1996 Anthony K. Music (ASCAP)
Vocals: Filepe Arias, Gary Miller, Robert Guy, Steve Reischl and Keith Lancaster
Lead: Filepe Arias

Lyrics:

All to Jesus, I surrender
All to Him I freely give
I will ever love and trust Him
In His presence daily live

Chorus:
I surrender all, I surrender all
All to Thee, my blessèd Savior
I surrender all

All to Jesus I surrender
Humbly at His feet I bow
Worldly pleasures all forsaken
Take me, Jesus, take me now

Repeat Chorus

All to Jesus, I surrender
Lord, I give myself to Thee
Fill me with Thy love and power
Let Thy blessing fall on me

Repeat Chorus

Scriptural Reference:

"Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple." Luke 14:33

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Sweet Hour of Prayer

Words: William W. Walford (1845)
Music: William B. Bradbury (1861)
Arrangement: Gary Moyers © 1996 Clifty Music (BMI)
This song also appeared on Hymns for All the Ages by Acappella and Knockin' At Your Door by Revival.
Lead: Gary Moyers

Lyrics:

Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer!
That calls me from a world of care
And bids me at my Father's throne
Make all my wants and wishes known

Chrous:
In seasons of distress and grief
My soul has often found relief
And oft escaped the tempter's snare
By thy return, sweet hour of prayer!

Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer!
Thy wings shall my petition bear
To Him whose truth and faithfulness
Engage the waiting soul to bless

Repeat Chorus

Scriptural Reference:

"Pray continually."  1 Thessalonians 5:17

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Fairest Lord Jesus

Words: German Jesuits (17th Century)
Music: "Crusader’s Hymn," Silesian folk song from Schlesische Volkslieder (1842)
Arrangement: Gary Moyers © 1996 Clifty Music (BMI)
Translation: Joseph A. Seiss (1873)
Lead:

Lyrics:

Fairest Lord Jesus, Ruler of all nature
O Thou of God and man the Son
Thee will I cherish, Thee will I honor
Thou, my soul's glory, joy and crown

Fair are the meadows, fairer still the woodlands
Robed in the blooming garb of spring
Jesus is fairer, Jesus is purer
Who makes the woeful heart to sing

Fair is the sunshine, fairer still the moonlight
And all the twinkling starry host
Jesus shines brighter, Jesus shines purer
Than all the angels heaven can boast

Scriptural Reference:

"Who is this that appears like the dawn, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, majestic as the stars in procession?"  Song of Solomon 6:10

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This is My Father's World

Words: Maltbie D. Babcock (1901)
Music: Traditional English Melody
Arrangement: Gary Moyers © 1996 Clifty Music (BMI)
This song also appeared as part of a medley on This Little Light by The Sounds of Glory.
Lead: Melissa Lancaster

Lyrics:

This is my Father's world, and to my listening ears
All nature sings, and round me rings the music of the spheres

This is my Father's world. O let me ne'er forget
That though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the ruler yet

This is my Father's world: I rest in the thought
Of rocks and trees of skies and seas his hand the wonders wrought

This is my Father's world, he shines in all that's fair
In the rustling grass I hear Him pass, He speaks to me everywhere

Scriptural Reference:

"The world is Mine, and all that is in it." Psalm 50:12

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Angel's Longing

Music: Gary Moyers © 1996 Clifty Music (BMI)
Lead: Steve Reischl

Scriptural Reference:

"Concerning this salvation, the prophets, who spoke of the grace that was to come to you, searched intently and with the greatest care, trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the Spirit of Christ in them was pointing when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you, when they spoke of the things that have now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look into these things."  1 Peter 1:10-12

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Special thanks for additions and/or corrections to: Cyberhymnal and Troy Campbell

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