Add "Faith of our Fathers" (#404)

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% from https://hymnary.org/hymn/MHPG1900/page/211
% text: Faith of our Fathers https://hymnary.org/text/faith_of_our_fathers_living_still
% tune: St. Catherine https://hymnary.org/tune/st_catherine_hemy
% Second verse instead from https://hymnary.org/hymn/HKoG1910/page/148, but
% substituting "Mankind shall than indeed be free" with "…be truly free" as in
% https://hymnary.org/hymn/HKoG1910/page/148
% Transposed down a half step
% CEL1997 (in G) has a tenor suspension on C4 (the seventh) on the third beat of
% measures 3 and 11, rather than the B♭2~A2 in MHPG1900; that's included here.
\version "2.24.4"
\header {
tagline = ##f
}
\language "english"
global = {
\key g \major
\time 3/4
}
soprano = \relative b' {
\global
b4 a g | g( fs) g | a( e) fs | g2. |
g4 fs e | d2 g4 | g( fs) g | a2. |
b4 a g | g( fs) g | a( e) fs | g2. |
g4 fs e | d2 b'4 | a( b) a | g2. \bar "||" \break
c4 c c | b2 b4 | a2 a4 | b2. |
b4 a g | e2 g4 | a2 a4 | g2. \bar "|."
}
alto = \relative d' {
\global
d4 d d | d2 d4 | e2 d4 | d2. |
e4 d c | b2 d4 | cs2 cs4 | d2. |
d4 d d | d2 d4 | e2 d4 | d2. |
e4 d c | b2 d4 | cs2 c4 | b2. |
e4 e e | d2 g4 | fs2 fs4 | g2. |
d4 d d | e2 e4 | fs2 fs4 | d2.
}
tenor = \relative g {
\global
\clef bass
g4 c b | b( c) b | c2 c4 | b2. |
g4 g g | g2 g4 | a2 g4 | fs2. |
g4 c b | b( c) b | c2 c4 | b2. |
g4 g g | g2 g4 | g2 fs4 | g2. |
g4 g g | g2 d'4 | d2 d4 | d2. |
d4 c b | c2 b4 | d( a) c | b2.
}
bass = \relative g {
\global
g4 g g | g( a) g | c,2 d4 | g,2. |
c4 c c | g2 b4 | a2 a4 | d2. |
g4 g g | g( a) g | c,2 d4 | g,2. |
c4 c c | g2 g4 | a2 d4 | g,2. |
c4 c c | g'2 g4 | d2 d4 | g2. |
g4 g g | c,2 e4 | d2 d4 | g,2.
}
verseOne = \lyricmode {
Faith of our fa -- thers, liv -- ing still
in spite of dun -- geon, fire, and sword;
O how our hearts beat high with joy
When -- e'er we hear that glo -- rious word!
Faith of our fa -- thers, ho -- ly faith!
We will be true to thee till death!
}
verseTwo = \lyricmode {
Faith of our fa -- thers! we will strive
to win all na -- tions un -- to thee,
And through the truth that comes from God,
Man -- kind shall then be tru -- ly free.
}
verseThree = \lyricmode {
Faith of our fa -- thers! we will love
both friend and foe in all our strife,
and preach thee, too, as love knows how,
by kind -- ly words and vir -- tuous life.
}
\score {
\new ChoirStaff <<
\new Staff \with { \consists Merge_rests_engraver } <<
\new Voice = "soprano" { \voiceOne \soprano }
\new Voice = "alto" { \voiceTwo \alto }
\new Lyrics \lyricsto soprano { \set stanza = "1. " \verseOne }
\new Lyrics \lyricsto soprano { \set stanza = "2. " \verseTwo }
\new Lyrics \lyricsto soprano { \set stanza = "3. " \verseThree }
>>
\new Staff \with { \consists Merge_rests_engraver } <<
\clef bass
\new Voice = "tenor" { \voiceOne \tenor }
\new Voice = "bass" { \voiceTwo \bass }
>>
>>
\layout {
indent = 0
\context {
\Score
\omit BarNumber
}
}
}