Isaac Watts, Greg Scheer’s posthumous collaborator
Update 12/29/21: Sheet music for this song is now available at gregscheer.com.
A few years ago I co-wrote a song with Isaac Watts called “Arise, O King of Grace, Arise,” aka “O Savior Come.” I hadn’t thought much about it lately until one of my fellow worship planners here at the church chose the song for a Christ the King Sunday service. Watts teases out the Christological overtones of Psalm 132 so that it works beautifully in that service as well as during Advent. I decided to revisit the song, with a piano accompaniment and string arrangement. Listening to the way the congregation grabs ahold of the song, singing with more gusto each verse, makes me realize that this one’s a keeper.
Available from gregscheer.com:
- Leadsheet
- Piano
- Strings: Score, Violins, Viola, Cello
