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Play “Asleep in Jesus! Blessed Sleep”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Asleep in Jesus! Blessed Sleep (Margaret Mackay): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 6 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 OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois), a Long Meter (8.8.8.8) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep!
- From which none ever wakes to weep;
- A calm and undisturbed repose,
- Unbroken by the last of foes.
- 2Asleep in Jesus! O how sweet
- To be for such a slumber meet!
- With holy confidence to sing
- That death has lost his cruel sting.
- 3Asleep in Jesus! peaceful rest,
- Whose waking is supremely blest;
- No fear, no woe shall dim the hour
- That manifests the Savior's pow'r.
- 4Asleep in Jesus! O for me
- May such a blissful refuge be!
- Securely shall my ashes lie,
- The summons waiting from on high.
- 5Asleep in Jesus! far from thee
- Thy kindred and their graves may be;
- But there is still a blessed sleep
- From which none ever wakes to weep.
- 6Amen.
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 Asleep in Jesus! Blessed Sleep page.
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