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Free same-meter accompaniment for Advice to Youth (Isaac Watts): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 5 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.
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- 1Now, in the heat of youthful blood,
- Remember your Creator, God:
- Behold, the months come hast'ning on,
- When you shall say, "My joys are gone."
- 2God from on high beholds your thoughts;
- His book records your secret faults:
- The works of darkness men have done
- Must all appear before the sun.
- 3Behold the aged sinner goes,
- Laden with guilt and heavy woes,
- Down to the regions of the dead,
- With bitterest curses on his head.
- 4The dust returns to dust again;
- The soul in agonies of pain
- Ascends to God, not there to dwell,
- But hears her doom, and sinks to hell.
- 5God of the young! turn off their eyes
- From earth's alluring vanities;
- And let the warnings of Thy word
- Awake their souls to fear the Lord!
About this music
OLD 100TH — Louis Bourgeois. Setting: Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter, 1561.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from ccel from Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter 1561. Words: "Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church", 1875, hymn 405.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Advice to Youth page.
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