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Free same-meter accompaniment for A Few More Years Shall Roll (Horatius Bonar): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune DIADEMATA (George J. Elvey) in four-part harmony, 4 verses, with the words on screen. Choose the key and speed, add an introduction, project the words on a TV, or practice your own choir part. Made for churches and home groups without a musician.

Sung here to DIADEMATA (George J. Elvey), a Short Meter Double (6.6.8.6 D) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.

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  1. 1A few more years shall roll,
  2. A few more seasons come,
  3. And we shall be with those that rest,
  4. Asleep within the tomb.
  5. Then, O my Lord, prepare
  6. My soul for that great day;
  7. O wash me in Thy precious blood,
  8. And take my sins away!
  9. 2A few more storms shall beat
  10. On this wild, rocky shore,
  11. And we shall be where tempests cease
  12. And surges swell no more.
  13. A few more struggles here,
  14. A few more partings o'er,
  15. A few more toils, a few more tears,
  16. And we shall weep no more.
  17. 3'Tis but a little while
  18. And He shall come again,
  19. Who died that we might live, who lives
  20. That we with Him may reign.
  21. Then, O my Lord, prepare
  22. My soul for that glad day;
  23. O wash me in Thy precious blood,
  24. And take my sins away!
  25. 4Amen.

About this music

DIADEMATA — George J. Elvey. 'Diademata' George J. Elvey, 1868. Setting: "Appendix to Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from "Appendix to Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869 Hymn 318. Ed. William H. Monk. Unknown if the arrangement is Elvey's or Monk's.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the A Few More Years Shall Roll page.

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