Hallelujah! The King is risen

Authors:
Themes:
Scriptures:
  • Isaiah 32:1
  • Matthew 9:2
  • Mark 2:5
  • Luke 5:20
  • Acts 2:24
  • Romans 6:9
  • Revelation 11:15
Book Number:
  • 461

Hallelujah! the king is risen!
Hallelujah! No death-dark prison
holds him, now his glory shines on high!
Hallelujah! He reigns eternal!
Hallelujah! No power infernal
stands before his majesty and might!

1. He came, our lives to save,
our sins he forgave.
He turned our night to day.
Praise him together!
Praise him for evermore!

2. He came, the cross to brave,
rose up from the grave.
One truth, one light, one way.
Praise him together!
Praise him for evermore!

Hallelujah! The King is risen!
Hallelujah! No death-dark prison
holds him, now his glory shines on high!
Hallelujah! He reigns eternal!
Hallelujah! No power infernal
stands before his majesty and might!
Hallelujah!

© 1995 Author
Brian Mayhew

The Son - His Resurrection

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Tune

The story behind the hymn

The words and music of this Easter song were written by Brian Mayhew at his home at Herne Road, Surbiton, Surrey in 1995. The tune came first, and the words adapted from part of the Holy Communion liturgy of the then Alternative Service Book 1980 of the Church of England. They were used first at Emmanuel Church, Tolworth, Surrey, and are first published here. The tune is named from the words HALLELUJAH! THE KING IS RISEN.

A look at the author

Mayhew, Brian John

b Oxford 1936. Wallington Grammar Sch, Surrey; Univ of Surrey (BMus in music and applied physics). A Chartered Engineer and Member of Inst of Electrical Engineers; currently a software engineer designing industrial control products. Living at Surbiton, he is a member of Emmanuel Ch (CofE), Tolworth, Surrey. He wrote A Light for Life, a musical for the Children’s Soc, published in 1997. As well as writing new texts, he has set several parts of the newer CofE liturgies (ASB1980 etc) to music, the first of which are published in Praise! Nos.165, 461, 681.