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Free same-meter accompaniment for Father, Hear the Prayer We Offer (Love M. Whitcomb Willis): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune BATTY (Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz) in four-part harmony, 3 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 BATTY (Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz), a 8.7.8.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1Father, hear the prayer we offer!
- Not for ease that prayer shall be,
- But for strength that we may ever
- Live our lives courageously.
- 2Not for ever by still waters
- Would we idly quiet stay;
- But would smite the living fountains
- From the rocks along our way.
- 3Be our strength in hours of weakness,
- In our wanderings, be our guide;
- Through endeavor, failure, danger,
- Father, be thou at our side!
About this music
BATTY — Basel, 1745 from Johann Thommen's Musicalischer Christenschatz. Setting: "Kern des Deutschen Kirchengesangs Zum Gebrauch" Fridrich Layriz, 1854.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from "Kern des Deutschen Kirchengesangs Zum Gebrauch" Fridrich Layriz, 1854 Hymn 108. Text as found in 1871 Episcopal Hymnal; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Father, Hear the Prayer We Offer page.
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