A Man there lived in Galilee (Traditional)

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  • (Posted 2021-03-07)  CPDL #63374:       
Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2021-03-07).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 29 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: The hymn with underlaid words in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard
  • (Posted 2021-03-07)  CPDL #63373:       
Editor: Andrew Sims (submitted 2021-03-07).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 100 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: The hymn in the version published in Hymns Ancient & Modern New Standard, melody with words.

General Information

Title: A Man there lived in Galilee
Composer: Anonymous (Traditional)
Tune: Tyrol
Lyricist: Somerset Corry Lowry

Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Unison
Genre: SacredHymn   Meter: 86. 86. D (C.M.D.)

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard

First published:
    2nd published: 1983 in Hymns Ancient and Modern, New Standard, no. 334
Description: Tyrolean melody

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Original text and translations

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A Man there lived in Galilee
unlike all men before,
for he alone from first to last
our flesh unsullied wore;
a perfect life of perfect deeds
once to the world was shown,
that all mankind might mark his steps
and in them plant their own.

A Man there died on Calvary
above all others brave;
his fellow-men he saved and blessed,
himself he scorned to save.
No thought can gauge the weight of woe
on him, the sinless, laid;
we only know that with his blood
our ransom price was paid.

A Man there reigns in glory now,
divine, yet human still;
that human which is all divine
death sought in vain to kill.
All power is his; supreme he rules
the realms of time and space;
yet still our human cares and needs
find in his heart a place.