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Play “Escape For Thy Life”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Escape For Thy Life (Thomas Scott): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) 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 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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- 1HASTEN, O sinner, to be wise,
- And stay not for the morrow’s sun,
- The longer wisdom you despise,
- The harder is she to be won.
- 2O hasten, mercy to implore,
- And stay not for the morrow’s sun,
- For fear thy season should be o’er
- Before this evening’s course be run.
- 3Hasten, O sinner, to return,
- And stay not for the morrow’s sun,
- For fear thy lamp should fail to burn,
- Before the needful work is done.
- 4Hasten, O sinner, to be blest,
- And stay not for the morrow’s sun,
- For fear the curse should thee arrest
- Before the morrow is begun.
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 Escape For Thy Life page.
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