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Play “Far from my heavenly home”
Free same-meter accompaniment for Far from my heavenly home (Henry Francis Lyte): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune ST. THOMAS (Aaron Williams) 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 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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- 1Far from my heav'nly home,
- Far from my Father's breast,
- Fainting I cry, blest Spirit, come,
- And speed me to my rest.
- 2My spirit homeward turns,
- And fain would thither flee;
- My heart, O Sion, droops and yearns,
- When I remember thee.
- 3To thee, to thee I press,
- A dark and toilsome road;
- When shall I pass the wilderness,
- And reach the saints' abode.
- 4God of my life, be near:
- On Thee my hopes I cast:
- O guide me through the desert here,
- And bring me home at last!
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 Far from my heavenly home page.
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