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Free same-meter accompaniment for Christ's Sufferings and Exaltation (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 let our mournful songs record
- The sorrows of our dying Lord,
- When he complained in tears and blood,
- As one forsaken by his God.
- 2The Jews beheld him thus forlorn,
- And shook their heads and laughed in scorn;
- He rescued others from the grave,
- Now let him try himself to save.
- 3This is the man who did pretend
- God was his Father and his friend;
- If God the blessed loved him so,
- Why does he fail his help to show?
- 4O savage people! cruel priests!
- How they stood round like raging beasts!
- Like lions gaping to devour,
- When God had left him in their power!
- 5They wound his head, his hands, his feet,
- Till streams of blood each other meet;
- By lot his garments they divide,
- And mock the pangs in which he died.
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's Sufferings and Exaltation page.
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