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Free same-meter accompaniment for And am I born to die? (Charles Wesley): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams) in four-part harmony, 9 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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  1. 1And am I born to die?
  2. To lay this body down?
  3. And must my trembling spirit fly
  4. Into a world unknown?
  5. 2Soon as from earth I go
  6. What will become of me?
  7. Eternal happiness or wo
  8. Must then my portion be!
  9. 3Wak'd by the trumpet's sound,
  10. I from my grave must rise,
  11. And see the Judge with glory crown'd,
  12. And see the flaming skies.
  13. 4How shall I leave my tomb!
  14. With triumph or regret!
  15. A fearful or a joyful doom,
  16. A curse or blessing meet?
  17. 5Will angel bands convey
  18. Their brother to the bar?
  19. Or devils drag my soul away
  20. To meet its sentence there?
  21. 6Who can resolve the doubt
  22. That tears my anxious breast?
  23. Shall I be with the damn'd cast out,
  24. Or number'd with the blest?
  25. 7I must from God be driven,
  26. Or with my Saviour dwell;
  27. Must come at his command to heaven,
  28. Or else depart to hell.
  29. 8I thou that wouldst not have
  30. One wretched sinner die,
  31. Who diedst thyself, my soul to save
  32. From endless misery;
  33. 9Show me the way to shun
  34. Thy dreadful wrath severe,
  35. That when thou comest on thy throne,
  36. I may with joy appear.

About this music

ST. THOMAS — Aaron Williams. Setting: "The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1905.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Episcopal Hymnal, 1905 Hymn 485.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the And am I born to die? page.

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