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Free same-meter accompaniment for Awake, My Tongue (John Needham): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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 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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- 1Awake, my tongue, thy tribute bring,
- To Him who gave thee pow'r to sing;
- Praise Him who is all praise above,
- The source of wisdom and of love.
- 2How vast His knowledge! how profound!
- A deep where all our thoughts are drowned;
- The stars He numbers and their names,
- He gives to all those heav'nly flames.
- 3Thro' each bright world above, behold,
- Ten thousand thousand charms unfold,
- Earth, air, and mighty seas combine
- To spead His wisdom all divine.
- 4But in redemption, O what grace!
- Its wonders, O what thought can trace,
- Here wisdom shines forever bright;
- Praise Him, my soul, with sweet delight.
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 Awake, My Tongue page.
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