Easter | MartySong https://martysong.com The Music of Martin Shrout Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:01:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 He is My King https://martysong.com/solo/he-is-my-king/ Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:04:27 +0000 https://martysong.com/?p=284 I wrote this song to celebrate the Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem.  I wanted to capture the excitement of that day.  When working on the Arimathean I felt this was just perfect to use for that scene. I still visualize the throng of people and the children dancing and jumping up and down with excitement.  The King has arrived!

Music Sheet: 03 He Is My King

Chord Sheet: 03 HE IS MY KING

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]]> He’s Innocent https://martysong.com/solo/hes-innocent/ Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:05:02 +0000 https://martysong.com/?p=288 Writing this song was once again my imagination working overtime.  The thought that Joseph could set by and say nothing seemed counterintuitive. The Bible narrative doesn’t say if Joseph said anything during the arguing over Jesus. Yet, I can’t help but feel that Joseph would have said something.  This is my expression of what he might have said.

Music Sheet: 04 He’s Innocent

Chord Sheet: 04 He’s Innocent

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]]> I Carried His Body https://martysong.com/solo/i-carried-his-body/ Sat, 21 Jun 2025 14:40:06 +0000 https://martysong.com/?p=197 Years ago in Oceanside, CA, I preached a Sunday sermon talking about Joseph of Arimathea.  It captivated my heart and imagination thinking about being the one who carried Jesus’ body off the cross.  Consider that Joseph was not only a member of the Sanhedrin but also a believer in Jesus as Messiah.  What a dramatic and deep emotional conflict must have been going on in his heart.  Carrying the body of the one you believed would restore Israel to a global power and bring justice back to the land.  Now he’s dead and your taking his bloody, beaten, and dead body off of a cross.  The cruelest of executions.

Later, after the resurrection, Joseph must have looked back and realized that he had carried and embalmed Jesus’ body only to know that Christ was no longer dead.  That He had risen from the grave and now was Joseph’s savior.  “I carried his body, and now he carries me.” To me that is deeply dramatic and powerful.

Sheet Music: 05 I Carried His Body

Chord Sheet: 05 I Carried His Body

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]]> It Wasn’t the Nails https://martysong.com/solo/it-wasnt-the-nails/ Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:12:18 +0000 https://martysong.com/?p=324 Inspiration can come from some unseal places. While looking for pictures for a powerpoint for a sermon. I ran across the statement, “It Wasn’t the Nails.”  I’m sure it was for another preacher’s sermon.  The phrase caught my attention and I began thinking of how true it was.  The nails couldn’t forcibly hold Jesus on the cross.  He was there because of His love for us.  Jesus chose to die on our behalf.  The cruelty and horror of the cross wasn’t enough to keep Jesus from saving you and me.  Thank you Jesus for your sacrifice for each of us. May Jesus Christ be praised.

Sheet Music: It Wasn’t the Nails – Lead Sheet

Choir Sheet: It Wasn’t the Nails – Choir arrangement

Chord Sheet: IT WASN’T THE NAILS – D

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]]> Jesus is Alive https://martysong.com/solo/jesus-is-alive/ Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:12:36 +0000 https://martysong.com/?p=326 Put yourself in the place of the disciples.  Or better yet, in the place of the women who went to the tomb to finish embalming Jesus.  The shock and the surprise when they see the stone rolled away and an angel sitting on top of it.  I’m glad none of them had a serious heart condition.  To discover the one you loved so dearly and thought was dead and come to find he’s alive.  What an emotional rollercoaster ride.  From shear dispare to soaring joy.  My guess is that they were speechless at first. Even though Jesus told them several times that he would rise on the third day, they still just couldn’t comprehend it.  Then seeing the amazed and disbelieving faces of the disciples.  When Peter and John ran to the tomb to discover that the women were right.  That was a moment in time they will never forget.  All that Jesus had said was true and He has returned from the dead.  Jesus is alive!!!

Music Sheet: 07 Jesus Is Alive

Chord Sheet: 07 Jesus Is Alive

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]]> Reprise – I Carried His Body / Jesus Is Alive https://martysong.com/solo/reprise-i-carried-his-body-jesus-is-alive/ Sun, 06 Jul 2025 00:49:34 +0000 https://martysong.com/?p=518 I put these two songs together as a reprise for the musical.  Reflecting on both Jesus on the cross and Jesus raised from the dead is a profound mystery.  Let’s celebrate our risen savior every Sunday.  Jesus is alive!

Music Sheet: 08 Reprise – I Carried His Body – Jesus Is Alive

Chord Sheet: 08 I CARRIED HIS BODY – JESUS IS ALIVE – REPRISE

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]]> The Arimathean – the Musical https://martysong.com/solo/the-arimathean-the-musical/ Sun, 06 Jul 2025 14:54:52 +0000 https://martysong.com/?p=522 Musical Script

The Arimathean – Script – Musical – April 2018 b

Musical PowerPoint

The Arimathean 1

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The Arimathean Musical – Album

Premiere Performance Bulletin

Bulletin HPCOG Apil 1 2018 Easter

Video of the Easter Sunday Performance on April 1, 2018

]]> Watch Out for This Boy https://martysong.com/solo/watch-out-for-this-boy/ Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:23:55 +0000 https://martysong.com/?p=390 This song was not written based upon any biblical text but my own imagination.  It occured to me that Joseph’s family was involved with the Sanhedrin for generations.  Just as his father was a member of the Sanhedrin so he would become a member.  If Joseph was near the age of Jesus, then his father might have been there when Jesus was 12 years old and talking to the priest in the temple.  I’m sure Jesus would have left an impression on Joseph’s father if he were there.  That’s what inspired this song.

Music Sheet: 01 Watch Out For This Boy

Chord Sheet: 01 WATCH OUT FOR THIS BOY

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]]> When Morning Comes https://martysong.com/solo/when-morning-comes/ Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:25:13 +0000 https://martysong.com/?p=398 The night after Jesus was crucified must have been horrific. That Saturday night, the day of Sabbath, had to be frightening since you didn’t know what the Roman soldiers or Jewish Leadership would.  Realizing that the Rabbi you loved was now laying dead in a borrowed tomb.  I’m sure the grief was overwhelming.  Laying in bed at night trying to sleep.  But sleep just eludes you. You think of the morning and can imagine the sun shining, birds singing, and everyone going about their day as if nothing had happened.  The sheer weight of grief just becomes unbearable.  When you wake to go and visit the tomb the sun will greet you and the birds will sing mocking all that you feel.  This feeling was what this song is trying to convey.

Music Sheet: 06 When Morning Comes

Chord Sheet: 06 WHEN MORNING COMES – Shrout

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]]> Who is This Man https://martysong.com/solo/who-is-this-man/ Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:26:28 +0000 https://martysong.com/?p=402 As Jesus’ ministry progressed and the miracles became known, I’m sure people began to ask this questions, “Who is this man?” Even the disciples when Jesus calmed the storm at sea asked, “Who is this man?”  Even today people make all kinds of assumptions and they still ask, “Who is this man?”  It is my hope that all will discover who Jesus is and allow Him to change their hearts.

Music Sheet: 02 Who Is This Man

Chord Sheet: 02 WHO IS THIS MAN

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