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Free same-meter accompaniment for Christ at the Door (J. Grigg): 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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- 1Behold a Stranger at the door!
- He gently knocks, has knocked before;
- Has waited long, is waiting still:
- You treat no other friend so ill,
- You treat no other friend so ill.
- 2O lovely attitude. He stands
- With melting heart and loaded hands!
- O matchless kindness, and He shows
- This matchless kindness to His foes!
- This matchless kindness to His foes!
- 3But will He prove a friend indeed?
- He will; the very friend you need;
- The Friend of sinners, yes, 'tis He,
- With garments dyed on Calvary,
- With garments dyed on Calvary.
- 4Admit Him, lest His anger burn,
- And He, departing, ne'er return;
- Admit Him, or the hour's at hand
- You'll at His door rejected stand,
- You'll at His door rejected stand.
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 Christ at the Door page.
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