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Free same-meter accompaniment for For a New-Year's Day (Philip Doddridge): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune OLD 100TH (Louis Bourgeois) 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 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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- 1Eternal Source of every joy,
- Well may thy praise our lips employ
- While in thy temple we appear,
- To hail thee Sovereign of the year!
- Wide as the wheels of nature roll,
- Thy hand supports and guides the whole:
- The sun is taught by thee to rise,
- And darkness when to vail the skies
- 2The flowery spring, at thy command
- Perfumes the air, adorns the land;
- The summer rays with vigor shine,
- To raise the corn, to cheer the vine:
- Thy hand, in autumn, richly pours
- Through all our coasts redundant stores;
- And winters, softened by thy care,
- No more the face of horror wear.
- 3Seasons and months, and weeks and days,
- Demand successive songs of praise;
- And be the grateful homage paid,
- With morning light and evening shade.
- Here in thy house let incense rise,
- And circling Sabbaths bless our eyes,
- Till to those lofty heights we sour,
- Where days and years revolve no more.
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 For a New-Year's Day page.
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