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Free same-meter accompaniment for Evening (Charles Wesley): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) in four-part harmony, 6 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 OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois), a Long Meter (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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- 1How do Thy mercies close me round!
- For ever be Thy name adored;
- I blush in all things to abound;
- The servant is above his Lord.
- 2Inured to poverty and pain,
- A suffering life my Master led;
- The Son of God, the Son of Man,
- He had not where to lay His head.
- 3But lo! a place He hath prepared
- For me, whom watchful angels keep
- Yea, He Himself becomes my guard;
- He smooths my bed, and gives me sleep.
- 4Jesus protects; my fears, be gone;
- What can the Rock of ages move?
- Safe in Thine arms I lay me down,
- Thine everlasting arms of love.
- 5While Thou art intimately nigh,
- Who, who shall violate my rest?
- Sin, earth, and hell I now defy;
- I lean upon my Saviour's breast.
- 6I rest beneath the Almighty's shade;
- My griefs expire, my troubles cease;
- Thou, Lord, on whom my soul is stayed,
- Wilt keep me still in perfect peace.
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 Evening page.
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