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Play “For Thy mercy and Thy grace”
Free same-meter accompaniment for For Thy mercy and Thy grace (Henry Downton): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons) 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 CANTERBURY (Orlando Gibbons), a 7.7.7.7 tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1For Thy mercy and Thy grace
- Constant through another year,
- Hear our song of thankfulness;
- Father and Redeemer, hear.
- 2In our weakness and distress,
- Rock of strength, be Thou our stay!
- In the pathless wilderness,
- Be our true and living way.
- 3Which of us death's awful road
- In the coming year shall tread--
- With Thy rod and staff, O God,
- Comfort Thou his dying bed.
- 4Make us faithful, keep us pure;
- Keep us evermore Thine own;
- Help Thy servants to endure;
- Fit us for the promised crown.
- 5So within Thy palace gate
- We shall praise, on golden strings,
- Thee, the only Potentate,
- Lord of lords, and King of kings.
- 6Amen.
About this music
CANTERBURY — Orlando Gibbons. 'Canterbury' or 'Song 13' Orlando Gibbons, 1623. Setting: "Common Service Book" (ULCA), 1917.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from 'Common Service Book With Hymnal' ULCA, 1917 Hymn 156.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the For Thy mercy and Thy grace page.
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