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Editor: Michael Lauer (submitted 2007-12-14).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 74 kB   Copyright: Personal
Edition notes:

General Information

Title: Lo, he cometh; countless trumpets
Composer: William Billings
Tune: Hopkinton
Lyricist: John Cennick

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: SacredHymn

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1794

Description: Published on p144 of The Continental Harmony (Boston: 1794). While Billings attributes the text to George Whitefield, it is by John Cennick.

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Original text and translations

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Lo, He cometh, countless trumpets
blow before the bloody sign,
midst ten thousand saints and angels
see the crucified shine.

Hallelujah, hallelujah,
welcome bleeding lamb.