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Free same-meter accompaniment for Eternal Father! strong to save (William Whiting): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune MELITA (John Bacchus Dykes) 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 MELITA (John Bacchus Dykes), a 8.8.8.8.8.8 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Eternal Father! strong to save,
- Whose arm doth bind the restless wave,
- Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep
- Its own appointed limits keep:
- O hear us when we cry to Thee
- For those in peril on the sea!
- 2O Saviour! whose almighty word
- The winds and waves submissive heard,
- Who walkedst on the foaming deep,
- And calm amidst its rage did sleep:
- O hear us when we cry to Thee
- For those in peril on the sea!
- 3O Sacred Spirit! who didst brood
- Upon the chaos dark and rude,
- Who bad'st its angry tumults cease,
- And gavest light, and life, and peace:
- O hear us when we cry to Thee
- For those in peril on the sea!
- 4O Trinity of love and power!
- Our brethren shield in danger's hour;
- From rock and tempest, fire and foe,
- Protect them wheresoe'er they go;
- And ever let there rise to Thee
- Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.
About this music
MELITA — John Bacchus Dykes. 'Melita' John Bacchus Dykes, 1861. Setting: "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1869 hymn 222. Tune from Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861. %OHARRANGER unknown assumed Dykes, John Bacchus (1823-1876) words found in "The service of song for Baptist churches", 1876 Hymn 1070; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Eternal Father! strong to save page.
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