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Free same-meter accompaniment for Daily Bread (Josiah Conder): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) 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.
Sung here to CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons), a 7.7.7.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Day by day the manna fell;
- O to learn this lesson well!
- Still by constant mercy fed,
- Give me, Lord, my daily bread.
- 2"Day by day" the promise reads;
- Daily strength for daily needs:
- Cast foreboding fears away,
- Take the manna of to-day.
- 3Lord, my times are in Thy hand;
- All my sanguine hopes have planned
- To Thy wisdom I resign,
- And would make Thy purpose mine.
- 4Thou my daily task shalt give;
- Day by day to Thee I live;
- So shall added years fulfil,
- Not my own, my Father's will.
- 5Amen.
About this music
CANTERBURY — Orlando Gibbons. 'Canterbury' or 'Song 13' Orlando Gibbons, 1623. Setting: "Common Service Book" (ULCA), 1917.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'Common Service Book With Hymnal' ULCA, 1917 Hymn 156.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Daily Bread page.
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