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Play “Dead in Trespasses and Sins”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Dead in Trespasses and Sins (Anne Steele): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams) 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 ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams), a Short Meter (6.6.8.6) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1How helpless guilty nature lies,
- Unconscious of its load!
- The heart, unchanged, can never rise
- To happiness and God.
- 2Can aught beneath a power divine
- The stubborn will subdue?
- ’Tis Thine, O Holy Spirit, Thine
- To form the heart anew.
- 3’Tis Thine the passions to recall,
- And upwards bid them rise,
- To make the scales of error fall
- From reason’s darkened eyes;
- 4To chase the shades of death away,
- And bid the sinner live;
- A beam of heaven, a vital ray,
- ’Tis Thine alone to give.
- 5O change these wretched hearts of ours,
- And give them life divine!
- Then shall our passions and our powers,
- Almighty Lord, be Thine.
About this music
ST. THOMAS — Aaron Williams. Setting: "The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged" (Episcopal), 1905.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Episcopal Hymnal, 1905 Hymn 485.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Dead in Trespasses and Sins page.
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