Several readers asked me for sheet music that corresponds to the lower-key hymn recordings. So here you go!
Ordinary Time Hymns: sheet music
Keep in mind, I downloaded these public domain songs from various internet sources, so they may have slight errors. (I know that my wonderful recording pianist made numerous notations on the music during our rehearsals.)
In addition, I did not delete all of the lyrics from the original files because that would have taken an immense amount of time (I hope to get to that task eventually). And because the songs were transposed to a lower key, the first line of lyrics may get lost in the notes.
Also note that the Ordinary Time sheet music PDF doesn’t include a few songs that are still under copyright or not online. Namely, I do not have sheet music for:
- Great is Thy Faithfulness
- How Great Thou Art
- I Am on the Battlefield
- I’ll Fly Away
- Oh, Freedom
- The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power
I hope these prove helpful to anyone who’d like to lead a live sing-along on the piano, in a lower key, which is more suitable for older adults.
Spiritual Eldercare 
What a wonderful thing you are doing! I do a lot of singing with the elderly, and this is fantastic. I just did a quick scroll through all of the pdf sheet music – I notice there are a lot of hymns lacking lyrics, and there are no chords listed, which would help. I have some of these that I have redone myself, and I am happy to send them to you, and work on updating these ones you have.
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Lindsay, that would be so great! I’ll send you a direct email to discuss.
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Thank you so much for this piano sheet music! Is there a collection as well for Christmas hymns?
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Shari, good question! I don’t think I ever made the sheet music document for the Christmas hymns.
I’ll try to get that done but it’s not likely to happen before Christmas … sorry!Changed my mind! I was able to track down the PDFs and combine them into a document, which I’ve just uploaded to this page. Merry Christmas!LikeLike
Dear Elisa, I have only just discovered you had the hymnal sheets and the music sheets. I wish I had noticed that before in all the years I have been using your lovely services and Bible Studies. Thank you.
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Susan, I’m glad you found them! You know, it makes me think that I should do some blogs to orient people to all the stuff on the site … I have added a LOT over the years 🙂 Thank you and bless you for your good work with elders!
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Yes that would be most helpful. I have just signposted a group of Christian carers I belong to, to your site for them to know about it.
I cannot thank you enough for the wonderful resource it is.
I have also passed on the link to our worship leader in church, as I know she often does the transposing herself…. quite a job really. So this may help her, though we also sing many more modern songs which unfortunately won’t be free from copyright. Bless you and Merry Christmas.
Susan
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Do you know where to properly buy the copyrighted music for I’ll fly away? This piano version? (in any key. I can transpose it myself). This is for family use only. I don’t know the arranger for this version that you recorded, which is very nice. Thank you.
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Thanks for asking! I don’t have sheet music for my recording because the incredibly talented Dr. Michael Williams did the impromptu arrangement for that version — he’s that good 🙂 https://www.facebook.com/Dr.MichaelAWiilams/
If you search online for “sheet music I’ll Fly Away”, you’ll find several places where it can be purchased and/or downloaded. I’ve used MuseScore to download music: https://musescore.com/user/30522520/scores/5368492 Blessings!
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Thank you for your answer and the links. That is helpful. God bless your work!
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