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Play “A Morning Hymn”
Free same-meter accompaniment for A Morning Hymn (Samson Occum): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) 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 CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons), a 7.7.7.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Now the shades of night are gone;
- Now the morning light is come;
- Lord, may I be thine to-day--
- Drive the shades of sin away.
- 2Fill my soul, O Christ, with light,
- Banish doubt and cleanse my sight,
- In Thy service, Lord, to-day
- Help me labor, help me pray.
- 3Keep my haughty passions bound;
- Save me from my foes around;
- Going out and coming in,
- Keep me safe from ev'ry sin.
- 4When my work of life is past,
- O receive me then at last!
- Night of sin will be no more,
- When I reach the heav'nly shore.
About this music
CANTERBURY — Orlando Gibbons. 'Canterbury' or 'Song 13' Orlando Gibbons, 1623. Setting: "Common Service Book" (ULCA), 1917.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'Common Service Book With Hymnal' ULCA, 1917 Hymn 156.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the A Morning Hymn page.
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